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Letters Chickens' Charter

From Professor Raymond Wacks Sir: There is a fashionable tendency in con- servative thought that, sadly, is increasingly reflected in your pages. It consists in both deriding......

Treasonable Tories

From Mr Bruce Shaxson Sir: Andrew Gimson (Tories: don't be slaves to the free market', 26 August) is mistaken when declaiming that all the Tories need is something much more......

From Mr William M. Ballantine Sir: Congratulations To...

for his timely article on the free market; times change, and the needs of the country change — for some time now, 'the emperor has had no clothes'. William M Ballantine Bo'ness,......

Conjugal Rites

From Mr Jeremy Westhead Sir: I doubt whether Ross Clark (Banned wagon, 26 August) has met anybody whose parents have attempted to arrange a mar- riage for their daughter against......

The Bbc And Europe

From Mr Robert Coppinger Sir: As a pro-European who reads The Spectator for amusement rather than through any need for reasoned logical argu- ment, I find that P.D. James's......

Judging The Pms

From Mr Tom Benyon Sir: Taki claims (High life, 26 August) that a number of prime ministers, including Harold Wilson, will be forgotten in com- parison with the differences made......

Essence Of Is

From Mr Malcolm Knott Sir: In her spirited defence of Islington and its pine tables (`Do they know what Is is?', 26 August), Anne McElvoy omits to men- tion one of its great......