Chapter NineThe papers were interesting in that the radical press were scathing and the reactionary elements were positive. Shaw had expected the conservative element to rant against rent levies but this had not happened. Indeed, one focused on the belief that death duties would be abolished. The radicals, on the other hand, were so wedded to their neo-socialist theories that they couldn’t, or perhaps wouldn’t, contemplate another way.
The following evening the media fielded the usual panel of experts. Shaw saw it as hopelessly biased, with only one journalist set against a TUC official and two established professors of economics. The TUC man said it was a charter to help the capitalist, and the professors were too busy defending their theories to give the proposals serious attention. The
