27 FEBRUARY 1993, page 22

Sir: You Have Had A Nice Piece Of Special Pleading

from Mr P.F. Loder Dyer (Let- ters, 20 February) neatly based on Pierre- Joseph Proudhon's maxim that property is theft (`La propriete c 'est le vol') with its Jacobin echoes.......

Good Clean Fun

Sir: Brian Masters (`Strange death of the English euphemism', 13 February) would have revelled in the contribution to this subject made by Sir Noel Goldie QC, for many years......

Letters Horne News

Sir: How sad that The Spectator, home of free thought, should have swallowed so uncritically the propaganda issuing from freeholder interests (`Lands of inheritance', 13......

Successful Operation

Sir: Stephen Robinson (`The phoney in the White House', 20 February) tells us that the sanctioning .of the execution of the con- victed black cop-killer Rickey Ray Rector by......