24 FEBRUARY 1973, page 4

A Spectator's Notebook

The Government's Counter-Inflation Bill has emerged from its Committee Stage pretty badly mutilated, from the Govern ment's point of view, but generally improved in the opinion......

Consumer Affairs

I hear on what is usually described as most excellent authority that Sir Geoffrey Howe, Mr Peter Walker's fellow Cabinet minister at the Department of Trade and Industry, is......

Rock Bottom

Inadvertently I found myself watching children's television , last Firday. The programme was called Crackerjack, and the host in charge was Michael Aspel, who seems a sensible......