13 JUNE 1992, Page 23

Sir: Your article, 'Full of Cantuar', (23 May) is a

travesty of what Dr Carey actually said. Any debate on birth control is a mine- field — but your explosive riposte really did The Spectator no credit. It is difficult to find a greater hypocrisy than the intelligentsia who practise birth control arguing that it is unsuitable for lower orders. Manifestly twice as many people must mean twice as much pollution, poverty and environmental degradation — and thank God one church- man has the courage to say so.

Vinson

House of Lords, London SW1