The Sunday Times account of Mr. Cousins's triumphs at the
Ministry of Technology—he 'is
acknowledged as one of the most substantial suc- cesses in the Wilson Government,' wrote James Margach, the paper's political correspondent— was interesting in more ways than one. I am sure that Mr.. Cousins is deeply interested in technological progress: he certainly appeared to be, at a party in the Sunday Times building the other evening in connection with a striking new venture in computerised typesetting. But on April 4 the same newspaper's Whitehall correspondent, Anthony Howard, presented a wholly different picture of Mr. Cousins's progress as a politician. His record, one then read, was 'a sadly disappoint- ing one.' He looked, it seemed, 'like Mr. Wilson's poodle or, at best, like someone who has been sold a pup.' Who can be right—Mr. Margach or Mr. Howard? It would make a good subject for one of those blow-by-blow inquiries in the Sun- day Times 'Insight' feature.
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