Personal Column

Toby O'Brien Now that the new session in Parliament has started the person I am most sorry for is my old friend, Mr Speaker, Selwyn Lloyd. By all accounts, from my parliamentary......

C Ia And Tshombe

, fear that I am not among those who are weeping salt tears over the difficulties in which at the moment the Central Intelligence Agency IS finding itself. Seldom can there have......

Re Cycling

(To the tune of 'Daisy, Daisy') OPec! Opec! Lend us some sterling, do! We're near shipwreck, All on account of you. We're paying you all our money, But this won't seem so funny,......

Double Agents

In the early days of the second world war the various intelligence services were always arresting each other. I was told the following story by the late Sir Desmond Moreton, who......

Boo Snubs

Of course there will never be any espionage centre as remarkable as Lisbon during the last war. I spent three months in the summer of 1940, the months which covered the fall of......

Bomb Mots

I had a letter recently from my old friend, Sir Arthur Bryant, the historian. Arthur is one of the kindest and nicest of men but alas, I fear, he committed an atrocity in the......