27 FEBRUARY 1982, page 17

Coarse And Irrational

Sir: One does not expect to find rampant racism in a paper like the Spectator, but it is all there in the review of Todd's book on Luther, by A. L. Rowse (13 February). His......

Letters

Old Bean Sir: The mention of the Bean car in the ex- cellent review of Home James by Mr Arthur Marshall (13 February) brings to mind the fact that around the mid-Twenties the......

Dog In The Manger

Sir: Alexander Chancellor in his Notebook of 20 February writes that the Post Office claims that, because councils are getting tougher about forbidding tenants to keep dogs in......

Honourable Man?

Sir: In his excellent article on the fall of Singapore (13 February) Murray Sayle, musing on the psychology of General Per- cival, writes that 'without the callous war- rior......