What Is Pornography ?

Sir: Your correspondent Christopher Purcell (Letters, 12 January) does not seem to realise that individuals sometimes 'flout the law' by, for ex- ample, forcing a customs man to......

Retrenchment At Lb.i Ranch

Sir: Stochastic, forsooth! If any more of your writers possess a persona, however charismatic, would you please have it encapsulated before my choler escalates to murder.......

Animal Crackers

Sir: May I be permitted to offer my warm thanks to Mr Kenneth Allsop for his wholly delightful article in last week's SPECTATOR (19 January), which came as an oasis of pleasure......

Libraries Amalgamated

Sir : I would be interested to know whether any of your readers could justify the existing division of reference library services in provincial cities between the Public......

Right-minded

Sir: How - right your contributors Messrs Raven and Waugh are to protest about the erosion of our liberties under this Government (29 December). From the far left, interfering......

Home Thoughts Afloat

Sir: The Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English defines the word 'offer' as: 'hold out, put forward, to be accepted or refused; say what one is willing to pay, give or......