23 MAY 1952, page 3

Excess Profits Levy

The Excess Profits Levy was a bad tax in its very conception, and no amount, of tinkering with it in committee will turn it into "a good one. It was intended to deprive......

At Westminster

T HE Finance Bill, as the Tories' dislike of the Excess Profits Levy, not to mention the Purchase Tax, has shown, is no popularity-winner, and yet Mr. Butler is coming through......

More Trouble In Durham

Those thoroughly bad employers the Durham County Council have never, of course, at any time abandoned their notorious " closed shop " policy, despite the fact that the......

Speed And Death

If kitty thousand casualties in a single year will not shock motor-cyclists into driving more carefully, what will ? The Committee on Road Safety, having looked at this question......