22 DECEMBER 1967, page 27

Kafka In London

Sir: Some aspects of the practice of medicine in Russia today were so unexpected to this observer, that on returning from a recent short visit to Moscow and Kiev I wrote a brief......

Contempt Of Court

Sir: One is naturally delighted when the SPECTATOR prints one's letter, and pleased to see a reply the following week. Pleasure turns to dismay when one realises that the......

Trahison Des Clercs

Sir: The article in your issue of 8 December criticises not only the publishers of the advertise- ment in The Times hut also the young men who tear up their draft cards. You say......

Compliments Of The Season

AFTERTHOUGHT R. P. C. HANSON R. P. C. Hanson is professor of theology at the University of Nottingham. In many cities nowadays when the civic Christmas tree is put up in the......

Ant Ills

Sir: Though I hope to be able to read the article in the British Medical Journal referred to by Dr J. Rowan Wilson in `Ant ills' (1 December), I hope that, for the benefit of......