Current parliamentary and government legislation, prospects and events

‘Current Affairs Information, Resources and Needs’ is the title of the Conference, and its wily sub‐title is Instant Information in a Changing Scene. I am always suspicious of sub‐titles—‘Tess of the D'Urbervilles—a pure woman:’ ‘Twelfth Night or What You Will’—the sting is always in the tail, and the subtitle often seems more important than the actual title. So is ‘instant information’ the theme of this Conference, or is its relegation to a subtitle an indication that it is a pious hope behind the more prosaic ‘current affairs’?