Red Britain in 1984?

IT is A season of mournful statistics. Margaret Thatcher is in the second half of her term of office, and hardly a prospect pleaseth.

Mass unemployment is now the great presence, the teller at elections. In 1979, when the Thatcher government came in, unemployment was a million and a half or 7 per cent of the seeking workforce—about what it was proportionately in the United States and Canada, with 4 per cent in West Germany and 2 per cent in Japan.