22 JULY 1972, page 28

Disabled Work

Sir: May I point out to Custos (' Disabled and Homeless ') that the average disabled person in this ; country knows what he wants and what he doesn't want, and his ; ideas about......

Declining Voters

Sir: — As representative of a ward whose electorate has declined by 13.5 per cent in two years, I heartily support the view expressed in last week's edition by the Pimlico......

Break Ilea

Sir: If Mr Richard Wort (Letters, July 8) seeks to be read with any attention in his excursions into sociology and education he will need to interpret Department of Education......

Thatcher Bash

Sir: What a pity Mrs Gradgrind Thatcher couldn't have been born in fifth-century Athens: they had a terribly troublesome chap there who got up to just the sort of things she......

Nicholas ' S Coffee

Sir: If Nicholas Davenport says he spent sixty pence on two cups of coffee at Orvieto, I am sure he did so, but, in order to prevent readers of The Spectator from getting wrong......

Misquote

Sir: It is odd indeed to find in a journal of such quality as yours the Competition Editor awarding a prize to Mr Woddis who misquotes, by implication, Masfield's well known......

Greasy Joan

Sir: The Spectator has been allowed to float for some long time. If Veronica Orme's foul saga (July 1) is an indication that your magazine has found its level then your......

File On The Tzar

Sir: I am constrained to inform you of the sentiments of the presumed Tsarevich, Aleksei Nicholaevich Romanoff, whom I believe to be the scion of the Romanoff dynasty and the......