27 NOVEMBER 1982, page 20

Small Is Efficient

Sir: The secret of Iceland's low unemploy- ment despite its high inflation (Notebook, 20 November) is no secret at all. If you want to locate countries with below average rates......

Opus Dei

Sir: To adapt Patrick Marnham's words (Postscript, 6 November), 'it looked pretty good between the Pope and the Spectator', but with articles like that from David Gollob,......

Book News 00

Sir: Your readers may be interested tol<0„i, ticles on the Lebanese war, that Jacobo Timerman's New Yorked°0 Nicholas von Hoffman in your issue o f a N s o v T e h m e b L er o......

Stinking

Sir: If, by Jeffrey Bernard's reckoning (20 November), only £1,990,000 has 'gone on the missing list' after deducting £10,000 from £10 million, it is not surprising that he is......

Letters

Throes of the Academy Sir: John McEwen takes a very rosy view of the Royal Academy (13 November), now in the throes — once more! — of trying to sort itself out financially. It......

Patients And The Vote

Sir: Otir aention has een dra wti , o t° f ' Auberon Wa tt ugh's article b 'Times oti` MIND' (23 October). Presuniab l Y Waugh believes this sort of writing to bra Waugh......