15 DECEMBER 1973, page 4

Not In Church?

Sir: Your gibe about "ignorant churchmen" (Leader, December 1) would seem to imply that in matters so obscure as politics and economics only experts have a right to an opinion.......

Sir: While No Doubt Anxious To Support Your Columnist, The

Dean of St. Paul's, over his refusal to allow his pulpit to the Archbishop of Canterbury, your reasons are rather spurious and, if not, then one must say the New Testament is......

From The Revd J. L. Higham

Sir: Whilst not wishing to contest the rights of the Dean of St. Paul's to refuse any service in his cathedral which he regarded as an unsuitable act of Christian worship, much......

Sir: Your Leader – Not In Church' (december I) Came As...

of a surprise. The Spectator appears in a new role as guardian of "the purity of Christianity" and as protector of the politician from those members of the public who may be "......

Medicine And Morality

Sir: There are several points in Miss Valerie Riches' letter responding to my comment on Dr John Linklater's article of November 17 which I should like to answer. First, Miss......

Sir: Dr John Linklater (november 17) Has Unusual...

transforms opinion into fact (" Never have the young known more about sex. Nor have they ever been more promiscuous ") and makes assertive deductions from non-proven......

Aphrodisiacs

Sir: What can Beverley Nichols mean 'poor ad Norman Douglas'? (Notebook, December 8.) Poor old Beverley Nichols, I'd say. Norman Douglas didn't in "his last disreputable days"......