21 MAY 1988, page 27

Before Thatcherism

Sir: During a business trip to Accra back in 1961, a colleague and I were invited to a small social gathering at the house of a Ghanaian government official. Among the other......

Bean Gas

Sir: 'When a reader cancels', by Paul Johnson (23 April), and the earlier letter from A.P.L. Campbell (16 April) do in- deed cause wonderment at the reactions of LETTERS some......

Quote, Unquote

Sir: In the leading article of 16 April reference was made to a comment alleged- ly made by me regarding the recent social security changes. You cited the following quotation......

Letters Country Housing

Sir: Mr Norman Tebbitt criticises HRH the Prince of Wales for proposing socialist solutions to the problems of the urban poor. The Prince of Wales is an unlikely socialist but......

One Hundred Years Ago

SIR H. Parkes, Premier of New South Wales, has telegraphed to the Colonial Office a despatch which, to speak plain- ly, insists that the Mother-country shall obtain a treaty......