Dame Rebecca Explams
From Dame Rebecca West Sir: I am embarrassed by Mr Beverley Nichols' allusion to me in 'A Spectator's Notebook' (December 8), for though I know he meant it as a compliment. I......
Prodigal's Return
Sir: It is nice to be thought of by Cohn Brownlow (ketters, December 8), along with others, as one who, he says, has in the past enlivened your columns. May I do so again in......
Grants To Poetry
Sir: Your Bookbuyer's Bookend column of December 1 has only just arrived on my desk amongst other press cuttings. It contains the information that the Arts Council has......
The Goatleys
Sir: Your medical correspondent may be good on blood pressure, but he is .not very perceptive about poverty 'The strange case of William Goatley' (December 1). Dr Linklater......
Fuel Economies
Sir: Along with much inconvenience and some real hardship, the enforced fuel economies have brought at least one benefit. It is now possible to shop in comfort, The absurd......
Irish Attitudes
Sir: You malign my native city of Limerick (December 8) by claiming that not too long ago Redemptorist priests patrolled its cinemas to ensure that the boys sat in a different......
Wages And Charges
Sir: Is it not ironic that whilst the Government condemns and resists financial blackmail by some Trade Unions it is at the same time unashamedly resorting to precisely these......
A Christmas Carol
Our good Prem-i-er looked out On the Feast of Sadat, when no oil lay round about, something he was mad at. Through the land there shone no light. For power cuts were cru-el,......
"sir, The Wind Gets Colder Now.
And the mire grows deeper. We believe the party will Find the path get steeper." "Mark my footsteps, good my men. Step you in them boldly; I am sure that you will then Feel this......
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