Questionable Benefit Of Pensions
Sir: This month pensioners will be getting the £1 increase which the Chancellor announced in his budget last March. But just how far does this benefit go? Quite apart from the......
The Irish Mess
Sir: Will Britain ever learn? The tragic events in Northern Ireland are a repetition of the troubled Years 1920-1921 in the South when the battle was between the Sinn Fein......
Legal Abortion
From Dr D. M. Potts Sir: I was interested in the thoughtProvoking advertisement insert by Life in The Spectator. The poster makes the point that humane people condemn atrocities......
Censoring Ads
Sir: Like your correspondent Mr R. K. Brian I am glad that it is not on the whole the practice of The Spectator to censor advertisements on arbitary moral grounds; nevertheless......
Militant Liberals
Sir: Since Mr Dan Morton (September 4) has seen fit to favour me with a somewhat offensive and personal sneer (characteristic, I fear, of the deteriorating level of white......
Sculpture Of Dodeigne
Sir: Your reference to the work of Eugene Dodeigne in your last edition could imply that the quality of his art might be in question. This misses the crux of Mr TalbotRice's......
Arabs And Jews
Sir: With regard to your review of the new Cambridge History of Islam (August 28) and in view of the present situation in the Middle East, it is strange to recall that at the......
Toynbees' Thought
Sir: The riddle of Arnold Toynbee is no more than the paradox essential to any great man and his thought, but Mrs Shirley Robin Letwin is pleased to fasten on Toynbee's ethics.......
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