10 APRIL 1971, page 36

Lord Melchett

If the Government are tired of the to-be- pitied. but immovable. Lord Melchett and need a better man they shouldn't be afraid of giving him the push just over the little matter......

Steel Stockholdings

There has been some silly talk that the British Steel Corporation should buy up steel stockholding firms so that they will pre- empt, so the .argument goes, the selling efforts......

The Concorde .

People whose arithmetic is good were against the Anglo-French Concorde development, and they may well have been right, on strictly arithmetical grounds, if their advice had been......

Pamela Vandyke Price

Raymond Postgate, who has just died, was a friend of mine and it is always difficult to write well about the loss of a friend. Yet the awe which one never quite lost in relation......

Country Li Fe Peter Quince .

We all, I suppose, have our own private symbols of the spring. To some the season is announced by the daffodils, to others by the cuckoo, and to others by the blossom on the......

Skinflint's City Diary The Budget Is A Good Beginning And

ob- viously the brainchild of someone who is not frightened by the administrative grades of the Civil Service—quite clearly our re- doubtable leader Mr Heath. Free depreciation......