Sir: Mr Maude (21 July) Accuses Dr Mishan Of Being
obsessed with noise. Mr Maude, in turn, appears to be obsessed with the physical damage being done to our environment.' I think he has lost his sense of proportion. Nature......
House Of The Dead
Sir: May I make a late comment on Tibor Szamuely's point (14 July) that the western liberal conscience is highly selective? This is my experience in trying to raise instances of......
Too Old For Pensions
Sir: I find reading the letters in the SPECTATOR (14 and 21 July) a truly poignant experience, for I am one of them—goo old by three and a half months.' All those benefits, all......
Sir: Mr O'hanlon's Letter Properly Draws Atten- Tion...
be done too often—to those who were deprived of an old age pension on the grounds that they were too old. , May I now add a word for those widows whose husbands failed to make......
Publishers And Set
Sir: While the Unselective Employment Tax is clearly insane, surely the adjective 'dotty' has been pre-empted by the Undecimal Currency Bill. G. W. Andrews Clun House, 17 Surrey......
How Voters Decide
Sir: The application of deep motivational research to commerce has revealed that consumers buy goods, such as motor-cars, for reasons other than they are consciously aware of.......
Growth For What
LETTERS From Kenneth Lewis, MP, D. E. Folkes, Edward Samson, Michael Ivens, W. E. Wood, E. I. Allen, Harold Malies. G. W. Andrews, William Hardie, S. E. Bushnell, Geo. G.......
Sir: If The `over-eighties' Had Been Ten Years Younger They
would have been entitled to the state pension, for they could have joined voluntarily: but they were debarred. Mr Phillips cannot argue that ten years' payments cover the......
Technological Substitute
How long, 0 Lord, in chronic gloom, Must we await a tonic boom; Or should we now assume content, Since it is also heaven sent, With, here and there, a sonic boom! Edward Samson......
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