22 JANUARY 1972, page 17

Used Bishop

Sir: Never had I expected to see the pages of your magazine openly used as a platform for neocolonialism, yet here are two gentlemen in your Letters column (January 1) virtually......

Lee's Ireland

Sir 'Joseph Lee on Modern Ireland*, December 4, writing of the wrongs of the present Border extols the hypothetical advantages of a 15 per cent minority instead of a 35 per cent......

Scientific Motion

Sir: Dr Bernard Dixon's picture of the 'itinerant scientist' (January 15), is no doubt a well-meant attempt to prove that the natural sciences have now finlly replaced theology......

Letters To The Editor

I nsPiring Spectator Sir: The Spectator has not always come up to my expectations during the past year, but No 7488 of J nuar, ..7 1 , 1972, raises hopes. Unlike the gallant......