14 NOVEMBER 1981, page 15

Lord Holford

Sir: 'Planning for apartheid' (31 October) provided Gavin Stamp with a twin target of publicly-accepted `beastlies' on which even a marksman blind with prejudice could not fail......

Livingstone As Leader

Sir: Clearly Richard West shares with most British journalists the urge to indulge in a 'hate Ken Livingstone' item from time to time (31 October). As this is so universal,......

Expensive Rubbish

Sir: When it comes to Christmas food and Christmas pud in particular we must discount Alexander Chancellor's sniffy Notebook remarks (31 October) about the usual expensive......

Finding No Fault

Sir: I am utterly astonished by Richard Ingrams's criticisms of Brideshead Revisited (24 and 31 October); my own views are very different. Brideshead is a great romantic novel......

Cnd Demonstration

Sir: Richard Brent in his article of 31 October entitled 'CND: as bourgeois as ever' states that 'the Father of St Francis Roman Catholic Church in Notting Hill carried the......