The pits and the pendulum.

Editorial. Blames Labor and trade unions for the destruction of the coal industry. Michael Heseltine's decimation of the industry; Suborning the Select Committee on Trade and Industry; British Coal's halving of its white-collar workforce; Preservation of the financial health of the electricity industry; Immiseration of whole communities; Too hasty jettisoning of many of Labor's beliefs; Hasty adoption of too many free-market nostrums.