Articles by Ian Maxwell

during the year, as compared to 13.0 per cent in 1982-83. High demand for jute goods also supported this trend. The inflationary pressure of a few agricultural and agro-based commodities on the wholesale price index had a greater impact on consumer prices, since in the consumer price index compilation the above commodities have the greater weight. Thus on a point-to-point basis, the consumer price index recorded a growth of 11.2 per cent in 1983-84. By comparison, the index had risen by 9.8 per cent and 8.8 per cent, respectively, in 1982-83 and 1981-82. The consumer price index, which was increasing from February 1983, had reached 561 in November 1983, recording an increase of 11,8 per cent during March-November 1983

Official Secrets: A British Disease?
Ian Maxwell "INFORMATION is light" declares a war photographer in rationalisation of his colleague's futile death in Tom Stoppards play about the British press, "Day and Night''. "Information, in itself, about anything, is light.'' The Guardian has, in recent weeks, suffered for its illumination of the workings of the Conservative government as it bumped sharply and painfully against the legal barricades erected by the British State