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Sir: It Was Refreshing To Read Ms Molly Parkin's...

of the 'new morali- ty', with its condemnation of female- debasing pornography (Letters, 9 October). It pains me to inform her, however, that a writer (sic) using her name is......

Sdpopulism Sdpopulism

Sir: Jo Grimond's call for 'a touch t h e o f _ populism' (25 September) in SDP/Liberal Alliance message strikes t c harmonious chord with many of us in r , 11 , SDP. It was on......

A Pornless Childhood

Sir: Of course I agree with your correspon- dent Phillip Hodson (2 October) that no quantity of assertion that pornography causes the 'rape of small girls, incest and sadism'......

Eye-warmer

Sir: I had an idea that Private Eye was in as 3 bad financial way but I did not know it w to so bad as to necessitate its editor having push Swedish products. bought, t s , h o......

Sir: Mr David Taylor In His 'saying Good- Bye To

Oxford' (9 October) makes a most serious statement that a friend was warned by his prospective employer not to get a first-class degree there. Unless Mr Taylor provides the......

Naked Decision

Sir: Ms Molly Parkin's objection to the references to her in a recent article in the Spectator by Mr Richard West (Letters, 9 October) makes strange reading when we consider the......

Clever Clogs

Sir: Without wanting to sound hubristic I trust you will make subsequent clues in the Spectator Treasure Hunt more demanding. I cannot believe I was the only one to have got the......

Letters

The Oxford image Sir: I read with interest David Taylor's ave atque vale on Oxford, for today, 8 October, is in fact the 50th anniversary of my arrival at Keble College, and my......

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