18 SEPTEMBER 1971, page 22

Union Taxes

Sir: The conclusion drawn by Mr Eric Jacobs (September 11) that the Transport Workers are lawabiding men because they are ready to pay taxes has no validity. The income tax on......

Waugh Bash

From Mrs H. E. Gledhill Sir: In his book reviews Mr Auberon Waugh has more than once expressed his feelings of revulsion on first seeing photographs of his favourite authors. I......

Status Symbol?

Sir: Your column ' Bookend ' (August 28), suggests that writers of specialist books have the least need of a literary agent, except i.erhaps as a status symbol. As an agent......

Palmer & The Princess

Sir: I notice that a letter from the Literary Editor of The Spectator appeared in the Times in connection with an article recently published in The Spectator. I would like to......

Sir: The Hypocrisy Of Your Magazine Continues To Amaze Me.

You write in your Notebook (September 11) that you now admit that you were wrong to print Tony Palmer's very funny piece about Princess Anne. Why was that? Because a few of your......

Sir: Your Publication Seems To Me To Be Outstandingly...

intelligent, and independent (more so than some which more ostentatiously hawk their social consciences but give little evidence of caring for anything but themselves). You do......

Marketeering

Sir: While welcoming the more moderate tone of Geoffrey Rhodes's contribution to the Common Market debate (August 28) one must nevertheless deprecate the tendentious selective......