21 FEBRUARY 1998, page 24

Conspiracy Theory

Sir: May I echo Lord Portsmouth's appeal for some public enquiry into the labyrinthine 'repatriations controversy' (Letters, 24 January)? Not of course that we are likely to get......

Stop This!

Sir: As a Canadian reader, I have two regrets about your otherwise excellent mag- azine. One is that so little appears in The Spectator about my own country. I am con- scious,......

Fathers And Sons

Sir: I am reluctant to engage in a chain of correspondence of von Schlieffen propor- tions, but A.N. Binder's letter (7 February) about Englishmen as antipodean father- figures......

Letters Solutionism

. Sir: A few days before winning the 1979 election, Mrs Thatcher's Northern Ireland spokesman, Airey Neave, was murdered by the INLA and with him died the integra- tionist......

Date (the) Rapist

Sir: Neil Collins Making for the call', 14 February) has been extremely fortunate in his recent experiences with the Katherine Allen Marriage Bureau. His dates all appear to......