24 DECEMBER 1977, page 17

Student Politics

Sir: Your editorial (10 December) on the restoration of free speech by the National Union of Students was slightly misleading. The impression it left was that the so-called......

In Defence Of Dogs

Sir: After reading Geoffrey Wheatcroft's attack on dogs (Notebook, 10 December), I consulted an expert, our local road sweeper. He assures me that most of the filth he sweeps up......

Independence For England

Sir: Ferdinand Mount (26 November) is wrong in saying that the English don't care about devolution. In fact most of those I have spoken to are enthusiastic about the idea of an......

A Federal Kingdom

Sir: George Gale is to be commended for perceiving ('How to save the Union', 3 December) that the logical way out of the devolution conundrum is a federal UK involving regional......

Communications

Sir: I read with considerable amusement John Grigg's 'media mania'. May I invite the attention of others similarly amused to the following extract from my paper entitled......

Mr Heath's Patience

Sir: I am sorry that Ferdinand Mount chose to spoil his otherwise droll articleSBallad of Reading General', 10 December) with criticism of Mr Heath's impatience. It is my......

Aubrey Singer

Sir: Whilst not wishing to deny Geoffrey . Wheatcroft the freedom to express his opinionated view of the BBC (Notebook, 17 December) I feel he might do his readers the courtesy......

Bacon-shakespeare Link

Sir: Is it not very significant that the owner of the house that Shakespeare bought in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1597, William Underhill, was a kinsman of John Underhill, a......

Last Word

Sir: So Miss Connell (3 December) claims that Menachem , Begin in his book The Revole(pp 162-165), referring to the battle af Deir Yassin, wrote: 'The massacre was not only......