12 NOVEMBER 1948, page 3

Coal Failure

It used to be fashionable a year or two ago to point out that the British economy was based on coal. It is less fashionable now. But it is not less true and it is not less......

At Westminster

I HAVE always enjoyed watching the men who, after any great public ceremony, go around with spiked sticks spearing odd pieces of paper. There is a satisfaction in tidying up......

Civil Defence

The civil defences of this country against war are at the present moment virtually non-existent ; even what survives from 1945 in the way of experience and equipment is bound to......

The T.u.c. On Productivity

The interval between January I, 1948, when the General Council of the Trades Union Congress issued its first clear statement on the need for increased production, and the......