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School Politics

From Mr Stephen Miller Sir: Two days into the new school term and I am in despair. My 14-year-old daughter was reading out a critical essay on a poem about a pigeon to the rest......

Twilight Robbery

From Mr R.S. Squires Sir: I found `Middle-class welfare scroungers' (14 July) by Ross Clark extremely insulting and derogatory. In good faith I supplied him with full details of......

Powers Of The Icc

From Mr Graham Stewart Sir: Chris Harmer (Letters, 18 August) accuses me of 'misrepresenting' the powers of the permanent International Criminal Court in my article 'Above the......

Anti-market Forces

From Mr Roger Broad Sir: Frederick Forsyth (Politics, 18 August) is wildly inaccurate in supposing that the June 1975 referendum on remaining in the European Community 'closed......

Oversimplification

From Mr Raymond P. Kalman Sir: Mr W.F. Deedes, a former chairman of the parliamentary select committee on race relations and immigration, is sadly mistaken if he believes that......

Whites In The Red

From Mr Nicholas Field Sir: It is dispiriting to see The Spectator guilty of making the same generalisations that it so roundly condemns in others, particularly in an otherwise......