30 JUNE 1984, page 5

Ballot Rigging

T he Government's defeat in the House of Lords last week over the issue of compulsory postal ballots in union elections was a characteristic minor example of Mrs Thatcher's......

Numbers Racket

T n his autobiography, Malcolm X, the 1 American gangster who became a black power leader in prison, recounts how he graduated from petty drug peddling to `running the numbers'......

Johnsonian Rebuke

T he Spectator's architectural correspon- dent, Gavin Stamp, won a considerable coup at the public inquiry into the Mansion House Square development on Wednesday. Re produced a......

Notes

M rs Thatcher claims a success at the EEC summit at Fontainebleau. Yet the main result of the summit is that the spending of the EEC — and Britain's con- tribution to that......

Killing The Swedes

D ritain's decision not even to attempt to reduce sulphur dioxide emissions by 30 per cent before 1993 is a shaming one; and the arguments used to justify it are specious. If......

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