18 JANUARY 1975, page 4

The Country's Interest

Sir: I am saddened by yet two more revelations — in one issue of The Spectator — that one must never take for granted that Parliamentart representatives speak, act and vote in......

Comprehensive Defender

Sir: In your issue of January 4, you publish a letter from Mr Lockhart criticising comprehensive schools. They have, he says, "long had a ,bad name," their new teaching methods......

Revaluation

Sir: Had Gertrude Stein observed that a 'Contract is a contract is a contract' instead of a 'Rose is a Rose is a Rose', she'd have uttered a profundity that G. M. Lewis......

Press Freedom

Sir: As newspaper editors continue their campaign to protect editorial authority and maintain the traditional 'Freedom' of the British press from the closed shop provisions of......

The Gold Market

Sir: Charles Stahl's column 'Writing on the Wall . Street', for December 28 is much to be commended, for so much of the comment on the 'legalising' of gold in the US has......

Burmah Oil

Sir! The Government has just given taxpayers' money to the Burmah Oil Company in return for a stake in the company, and a 51 per cent share in its interests in the North Sea oil......