Wayland Kennet is the SDP spokesman on foreign affairs and defence in the House of Lords. He founded and edited the international quarterly Disarmament and Arms Control. An article published in Encounter in 1957 gave early warning of the potential damage from nuclear test fall-out.
Species come and go, but their coming and going remains, we rather think, unremarked by any species but our own. That is one thing which distinguishes us from all the others. Another is that we bother about what distinguishes us from all the others. Another again is that we bother about destiny and free will. Yet another is that we wear clothes.
The SDP is just now at a critical juncture in its career. But then it has been at one critical juncture or another virtually throughout its brief existence. As much as the Labour Party, it has...
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