  The main attractions of studying the bosonic sector of the electroweak
standard model and its extensions at a future high energy photon collider are
reviewed. A presentation of the laser scheme for obtaining such a collider is
given where we emphasize the importance of polarised \gag spectra. The need for
{\em measuring} the differential luminosities is stressed. We show that, in a
large variety of processes, the yield of weak vector bosons is much higher than
at the \epm mode but unfortunately, the cross sections are dominated by the
transverse modes. Investigation of the physics related to the symmetry breaking
sector both in $W$ and $Z$ pair production is given and contrasted with what we
expect to obtain in the \epm mode and at the LHC. We reassess the issue of
whether an intermediate-mass Higgs can be observed as a resonance when we have
a broad spectrum that allows the simultaneous study of a host of electroweak
phenomena. This investigation includes the important background of the
so-called ``resolved" photon. We analyse the important issues of the mass
resolution, the $b$ tagging efficiencies, and the polarisation of the beams at
two typical \epm energies: 300GeV and 500GeV. New efficient cuts are found to
suppress the background. The importance of $WWH$ production at $\sim$1TeV is
emphasized and contrasted with other Higgs production mechanisms at both \epm
and $e\gamma$. Finally, we examine the interesting problem of the longitudinal
$W$ ($W_L$) content of the photon. A new set of polarised structure functions
for the $W_L$ inside the photon is proposed. We test the validity of the
ensuing effective $W$ approximation in the \ggwwht process.
