Market And Marxism
Sir: C. J. Arthur (October 13) tells us to forget EEC "quibbles about the margins of national sovereignty" and to vote to keep out Labour's Marxist programme. But in a few......
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Battersley , saxiom Sir: We seem to be on the verge of discovering a new educational truth which in years to come may well be known as " Hattersley's Axiom." "A good potato......
Brickbat For Jenkins
Sir: May I protest against Clive Jenkins' review of Eric Silver's book on Vic Feather (October 6)? Surely readers of The Spectator are entitled to e xpect that the reviews it......
Bouquet For Juliette
I hope you will not be disappointed if I say that it is my habit to turn first tO the column written by your lady racing correspondent. How encouragi ng when I saw that she had......
Double Standards
Sir: The point which Mr Philip Baker overlooks (October 13) is that Rhodesia was, and in theory still is, a British colony. Recognition of full independence would have to......
Schools' Democracy
Sir: In reply to Mr Chambers (Letters, October 6), at Kirkdale School the children do participate in making decisions about the school's central curriculum; and they don't......
Smoking •
Sir: In my letter which you very kindly print today you have truncated the penultimate sentence which should have read: "the truth surely is that there is no such thing as a......
From Dr John A. H. Wylie
Sir: Non sequitur and error fucatus suffuse Mr Chowdharay-Best's brief letter (13.10.73). A noble pipe of port even if, in its maturity, it were imprudently imbibed with copious......
Indivisible Faith
From the Revd John H. Bishop. Sir: The reviewer of Vedanta for the Modern Man (September 8) is less than plain. He is fully entitled to express his liking of Vedanta, the......
Stoned
Sir: While sharing Mr J. G. Watson's distaste (Letters. October 6) for pseudo, unmusica' "criticism" such as that Stones article, I feel that it's a non-sequitur for him to......
'sir: Mr Watson Sees In Duncan Fallowell's Article On The
Rolling Stones' concert the "total abnegation of the critical Function" . and the loudness of the music, he feels, is evidence of its worthlessness (Letters, October 6). Mr......
Sir: I Don't Follow My Own Remarks About Mr Fallowell's
ears being "all but inaudible." I meant that a military band would not have rendered his ears numb. I trust he can still answer my question (or three) — he will, won't he? John......
Gruntled
Sir: Egoistic correspondent Nicholas Twells's abreactive criticism (June 23 and October 13) might have psychotherapeutic advantages, but a pity that The Spectator should provide......
Edward Francis Burney
Sir: I am doing research on the artist Edward Francis Burney (1760-1848) and wonder if perhaps any of your readers may have drawings, notes, letters or papers which relate to......
Defending The Dean
Sir: It seems that to pour scorn on the Dean of St. Paul's is becoming a passport to respectability. I know nothing about the Dean's Greek scholarship, but perhaps it is no......
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