ANTONY LAMBTON

George Brown ... represents the theory of Marxism in the House of Commons - but that of Groucho, not Karl.

If you tried to turn figures into human form and give a computer flesh and blood you would probably end up with something like Mr. Jay. He is the personification of joylessness, the missing link between man and the machine.

Richard Crossman ... has a gift, which is useful to teaching but fatal to politics, uncontrolled imagination. There is no side of an argument that he cannot see, and he can well argue that black is white. Once his mind starts working it runs away with him, and he is able to persuade himself of the truth of what he wants to hear. At the same time, with the arrogance of the intellectual, he suggests that anyone who disagrees with him is little more than an idiot.

James Callahan, ... is a likeable and energetic man. And he takes his work seriously. Indeed it is said that he has recently sat for and passed an advanced correspondence course in Economics.

Richard Crossman ... has a gift, which is useful to teaching but fatal to politics, uncontrolled imagination. There is no side of an argument that he cannot see, and he can well argue that black is white. Once his mind starts working it runs away with him, and he is able to persuade himself of the truth of what he wants to hear. At the same time, with the arrogance of the intellectual, he suggests that anyone who disagrees with him is little more than an idiot.

James Callahan, ... is a likeable and energetic man. And he takes his work seriously. Indeed it is said that he has recently sat for and passed an advanced correspondence course in Economics.

George Brown ... represents the theory of Marxism in the House of Commons - but that of Groucho, not Karl.

If you tried to turn figures into human form and give a computer flesh and blood you would probably end up with something like Mr. Jay. He is the personification of joylessness, the missing link between man and the machine.