1 DECEMBER 1979, page 19

The Blunt Affair

Sir: The fact that Burgess, Maclean, Philby and Blunt were all at Cambridge in the Thirties might lead people to believe that all young Cambridge people felt as they did. This......

Sticking To The Facts

Sir: 'There are things', Raymond Chandler wrote, 'that are facts, in a statistical sense, on paper, on a tape recorder, in evidence. And there are things that are facts because......

A Kind Of Freedom

Sir: Alexander Chancellor (Notebook, 17 November) rightly castigates the misnamed Campaign for Press Freedom, with its declared aims of challenging 'the myth that only private......

Ancient And Modern

Sir: On the subject of this union and 'Ancient Music', Mr Booker can burble on as long as you are prepared to pay him for his contributions (24 November); he may afford harmless......