15 MAY 1976, page 19

Showing The Flag

Sir: I would be the first to admit that my book Britain's imperial Century is controversial, even provocative in places: it is meant to be. But John Terraine's review......

Food Cartels

Sir: There is much talk at present of 'world food shortages', but little of food cartels. The most obvious food cartel operating at the moment is the Common Agricultural policy......

Camelot

Sir: No one likes being rudely shaken into the bleak, grey world of hard reality when slumbering fast in the depths of a golden dream, so when a journalist of liberal persuasion......

Shining Knights

Sir: Having just finished Professor Knights' book Encounter 3, and having just read Peter Ackroyd's article in the 6 March issue of the Spectator, may I say I think Professor......

British Documentary

Sir: While I. appreciate that Penelope Houston at the end of her fine review of Elizabeth Sussex's The Rise and Fall of British Documentary might not wish to classify us as a......