17 AUGUST 1956, Page 7

'WHAT ABOUT the price?' a Daily Express editorial asked last

week, in a homily on the advantages of removing the bread subsidy. `Elevenpence is the trade forecast. But at first there was talk of a shilling loaf. So the price has dropped a penny already!' Just like in Bleak House, when Richard Carstone used to calculate that if he were in the army, he would be contracting debts at the rate of four hundred a year: so that by not joining the army he would save £2,000 in five years. I would have thought that even Express readers would have seen through this peculiar reasoning : but for Express readers, of