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Macgregor On Students

Sir: 'Ian MacGregor's' articles interested me very much, and I find that I agree with most of what he said (18 and 25 October, 1 November). May I make some observations from the......

Sir: The Basic Fallacy With Nigel Lawson's 'new Theory Of

by-elections' (8 November) lies in his failure to take account of votes cast for Liberals and other minor party and Independent candi- dates. The same reasoning that leads him......

Who Gets The Chair?

LETTERS From Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper, David Butler, Hugh Herrington, Sam Wiggs, R. E. B. Duff, Obi Ohanenye, Angus Buchanan, T. C. Skeffington-Lodge, Joseph Chapman, Dudley......

A New Theory Of By-elections

Sir: All unsophisticated psephologists and poll- sters must have been fascinated by Mr Lawson's contribution (8 November) to the analysis of recent by-elections. But perhaps he......

Enter The New Fascists

Sir: Since correspondence on the 'demo' con- tinues in your columns, it may be of interest to record the opinions of the patients in a large ward of a major London hospital in......