14 OCTOBER 1989, page 32

Scottish Architects

Sir: I cannot speak for the RIBA, but John Harris's letter on 'ignorant architects' (23 September) would be wholly inaccurate as far as the Royal Incorporation of Architects in......

Mature Judgment

Sir: I am 88 and my sight is poor so I can no longer read The Spectator with any care, so I am not renewing my sub. But I feel I must say 'thank you' for so many happy years. I......

Hungry Clubman?

Sir: Auberon Waugh (Another voice, 23 September) believes that his views on the need for drugs to be 'decriminalised', as the only way to undermine the criminal industries to......

Irene Noel

Sir: I plan to spend the coming autumn term at Churchill College, Cambridge, working on a biography of my late mother, Irene Noel of Achmetaga, Euboea, later the wife of Philip......

Homo Ludens

Sir: In a Spectator review (23 September) Francis King named darts as the 'most mindless of all games'. Not so. Years ago on the campus of the University of the South at......

Alive And Reading

Sir: I am a Spectator reader who once had the temerity to send junk mail to Lord St Germans (Letters, 28 September). I have not received back my pamphlet franked `Deceased'. Am......

Tireless Mosleys

Sir: Whether Mosley was an uncle or an unholy godfather of united Europe, (`Hit- ler and the European ideal' 23rd Septem- ber) he worked untiringly for 35 years, from 1945 until......

Useful Notes

Sir: Jock Bruce-Gardyne, for a Treasury minister and a Scotsman, appears to have surprisingly little knowledge of financial history (The economy; 16 September). So he would not......

A Dictionary Of Cant

OUT OF STEP. The charge that a policy is not congruent with public opinion, as represented in the most recent poll of poll of polls. The charge is not con- cerned with the......