15 OCTOBER 1983, page 17

Great Metropolitan Disaster

Richard West T he two basic duties of Margaret Thatcher were to abolish the trade union closed shop and to restore the old county system of local government. She funked the......

In The City

What can we afford? Jock Bruce-Gardyne I t looks as if the annual battle about public spending may be as tense as it was in 1980 (when the Treasury bit the dust, in-......