The Game’s Afoot

I would it were bed-time, Hal, and all well,” said Falstaff before the battle: and similar trepidation is being expressed by some British Conservatives as they gird themselves for the coming winter. Mrs. Thatcher shows no such weakness.

No one doubts that it’s going to be, if not a bloody battle, at least a bumpy ride. The rumbles of industrial trouble, the sporadic strikes, and the swelling chorus of outrage from the trade-union leaders, which have constituted a nagging background to the summer months, can hardly fail to become a great deal more ferocious.

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I would it were bed-time, Hal, and all well,” said Falstaff before the battle: and similar trepidation is being expressed by some British Conservatives as they gird themselves for the coming winter. Mrs. Thatcher shows no such weakness.

No one doubts that it’s going to be, if not a bloody battle, at least a bumpy ride. The rumbles of industrial trouble, the sporadic strikes, and the swelling chorus of outrage from the trade-union leaders, which have constituted a nagging background to the summer months, can hardly fail to become a great deal more ferocious.