28 SEPTEMBER 1974, page 3

Government By Muddle

However much Mr Wilson may strive to fend off criticism, or even pre-empt it, by asserting the existence of a Press plot to blacken himself and his political colleagues even......

Against Savings

Such ministers as Mrs Williams and Mr Jenkins, commonly thought of by journalists and even by voters as moderate, respectable and better in kind than rabid left-wingers like Mr......

Wreckers

Mr Foot, likewise, after numerous prevarications has now come down in favour of extending the rights of trade union pickets. There is but one end of such a policy, and it is......

Majority Weakness

Nobody — and certainly not this paper — would assert that the industrial relations policy of Mr Heath, or his manner of conducting it, was either very successful or very well......

Closer To Ruin

This is one of the most remarkable and paradoxical tragedies of contemporary British politics. A strong parliamentary majority has always in the past been taken to signify the......

Titty Reform

The Department of Trade has been inviting the views of the principal organisations in the City on the demand for a statutory control of City activities, possibly along the lines......