2 DECEMBER 1978, page 18

Censorship

Sir: By printing a letter (18 November) calling my friend Hans Keller a twat you would probably have been found guilty of obscenity until 1960, when the acquittal of Lady......

All Greek

Sir: What's all this nonsense about Socrates being around in 500 BC (Nicholas Mosley in your issue of 18 November)? His date of birth is usually given as 469 BC and his period......

Daylight Saving

Sir: If for the sake of energy conservation we must change our habits, and assuming the correctness of Mr Hodgson's tenet that man's jobs are done most efficiently from dawn to......

News Values

Sir: Geoffrey Wheatcroft (25 November) is perfectly entitled to criticise the decision to lead the 8 a.m. Radio 4 News with the story that commercial television had bought......

A : Bbi Le E X S An A Der Chancellor Was Vvis. E Indeed...

his offending .tax i ' driver (Spectator, 25 November). N ot long ago, I hailed a taxi with its fc' r Hire' sign on. The driver told me that he was travelling in the opposite......