Monthly Archives: February 1963

It is a common saying here that for the Conservatives and their supporters there is no Labour leader like the dead one. This was amply proved at the time of Mr Hugh Gaitskell’s death last month. The man who had been denounced for his “dishonest vote-catching” anti-Common Market speech at … Read More →

January 1963 has earned for itself a place in British history. It will be remembered as the coldest January since 1838, long after things like the failure of the Brussels negotiations and the row with de Gaulle and France arc forgotten. The generally stoic British people are fed up with … Read More →