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Dose of Escapism. In somewhat more veiled fashion, former Prime Minister Edward Heath said much the same thing as Macmillan at the Tories' conference in Brighton earlier this month. Another former Tory minister, Lord Hailsham, recently called for nothing less than scrapping the ancient parliamentary system ("an elective dictatorship") and replacing it with an American-style written constitution...
...misgivings: 73% feel that the unions are too powerful, while 66% believe that they are more powerful than the government. For obvious reasons, Wilson would like to keep the union issue out of campaign debates, but the Tories may not let him. In a speech last week, Tory Lord Hailsham, former Lord Chancellor, acidly described the Labor Party as a "wholly owned subsidiary" of the unions...
...brisk run on cutaway coats and striped trousers. British courtroom fashions differ markedly from American ones. An eye catching picture neatly captured that difference: there was America's bareheaded Chief Justice Warren E. Burger straining in ear-cupped intensity to hear speeches, while the British Lord Chancellor, Lord Hailsham, and the British Attorney General, Sir Peter Rawlinson, sat in bewigged splendor. ··· Not for nothing did the jet-set society earn its sobriquet. People arrive and depart from it with supersonic suddenness, though few have managed to do so as discreetly as Talitha Getty, the glamorous...
...Lord Hailsham, the Lord Chancellor, hastened to assure Her Majesty that the ancient right was of no real benefit to her. "There is an agreeable tradition," said Hailsham, "that the head [of a beached whale] was for the king, the body for the fisherman and the tail for the queen. This was based upon an anatomical fallacy, because it was supposed that the whalebone, which was used for the royal corsets, was in the tail. In fact it is in the head of a whale...
...Lords decided that seven pages of royal rights should be abrogated at the suggestion of the Law Commission, which was set up in 1965 to modernize Britain's statute books. Hailsham lavishly praised the commission for "unearthing this extraordinary piece of almost archaeological law." Some archaisms endure. Under a common law that never got into the statute books. Queen Elizabeth retains her royal prerogative over approximately 19,000 "wild, white and unmarked swans." That was only fitting, he said, because it "enables Her Majesty to make highly cherished gifts to foreign heads of state...