6 JANUARY 1979, page 12

What Is Conservatism?

George Gale The Conservative and Labour parties both find themselves divided on the two issues most central to governmental domestic and foreign policy — the control of incomes......

A Hundred Years Ago

An "Old-fashion Vicar," in search of a curate, writes to Monday's Times to complain of the mode in which the candidates for his curacy catechise him. One of them expresses his......