17 OCTOBER 1970, page 19

Ode To A Dry Spider

Some time ago I heard or read or viewed a learned man who gave it out as true that after mating, daddy spiders spent two months (I think) without a drop of brew; commending......

Pommy Bastards

Sir: It is reassuring to know that your reviewer of Andrew Garve's novel Boomerang finds the Aus- tralian outback tempting. As an Anglophile (which is Australian terminology for......

Terrorist Treatment

Sir: I find it extraordinary that Mr (ledwyn Williams (3 October) can somehow conclude that the Prime Minister, by holding in custody someone who attempted to murder 150 people......

Between Two Tyrannies

Sir: In welcoming Wilfried Strik- Strikfeldt's book Against Stalin and Hitler as 'a particularly important addition to existing memoir mater- ial on the anti-Stalinist movement......

Laura Norder

Sir: Congratulations to Stella Hagan, but it is the 'educated' who are murdering the English language. When I rebuked some proletarian youth for pronouncing 'Severn' as if it......

Postcard Anniversary

Sir: Although the present two tier system of the Post Office consider- ably reduced its public use, it was a pity that—apart from an in- formed paragraph well in advance by......

Shakespeare And Dr Rowse

Sir: By being so irrationally offen- sive to all who hold different views from himself, Dr Rowse's article does no credit either to his cause or to his own reputation as a......