FT, no comment Sir: I share Bruce Anderson's opinion that
Britain will do better without the euro, but not his whole-hearted admiration for the golden age of liberal Financial Times edi- tors (Politics, 15 November).
During those 'golden days' when Aims of Industry was almost alone (apart from the Institute of Economic Affairs) in campaign- ing for denationalisation and bringing trade unions within the law, two Financial Times journalists told me that any material deal- ing with Aims was spiked. When I com- plained to the editor of the FT, I was asked for their names: naturally I refused.
So nice, clever Ruth Lea of the Institute of Directors need not lament too much when the FT turns down all her letters against Britain joining the euro. After all, the BBC Six O'Clock News restricted its interviewees at the CBI conference to industrialists from the floor who are for the euro rather than those who are against. And, in those earlier 'golden days', Aims sometimes found that the only daily news- papers that would carry their advertise- ments were the Times and the Guardian.
Michael Ivens
2 Mulgrave Road, London NW10
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