15 DECEMBER 1967, page 27

Sir; The Criticism Of The New British Standard Time In

'Spectator's Notebook' (1 December) will have been read by so many, as it was by me, with whole-hearted approval. To advance the clock for that period of the year when precious......

Reflections On Middle Age

Sir: There is one important omission in John Rowan,Wilson's fascinating article in last week's SPECTATCR (8 December): the middle-aged spread and the obsession with dieting that......

D Night

Sir: One expects city editors to get their facts right. Patrick Hutber (I December) says that the Observer's business pages on Devaluation Sunday referred to devaluation only as......

Times Out Of Joint

Sir: In the SPECTATOR of 1 December J. W. M. Thompson describes melancholically and resignedly under the heading `Times out of joint' the dire consequences of an arbitrary and......

Life With The Colonels

Sir: Referring to the first of the two articles of your Athens correspondent Mr Michael Llewellyn- Smith (17 November), allow me to stress the following:- Mr Llewellyn-Smith......

Off The Streets

Sir: So Lord Chorley is to introduce a Bill to 'keep vice off the streets.' When, oh when, will our Puritans leave this subject alone? May I sug- gest that before we have any......

The Treason Of The Clerks

Sir: A reply to Simon Raven (1 December): Tell me not here, 0 Simon Raven, What rules the Clerk betrays, Why solecisms escape reviewers, Why English usage strays, For it and I......

• The Last Word

AFTERTHOUGHT JOHN WELLS The final shell- and bomb-shattered days of madness and despair in the Fiihrees Bunker in Berlin have hitherto remained wrapped in an impenetrable......