6 FEBRUARY 1971, page 8

The Nation's Wealth

Axe, please, Mr Barber By an Economist It is not often that political promises have been quite so rapidly belied by political performance as by the Chancellor of the Exchequer......

Diary Of The Year

Wednesday 27 January: to everyone's surprise 4,000 BOAC engineering employees voted to aban- don their work-to-rule: firemen too called off theirs after the Government announced......