30 JULY 1977, page 16

In The City

The gathering storm Nicholas Davenport The FT index of industrial shares dropped 22 points last week described as an 'equity rout' and although there has been a technical......

Crime And Punishment

Sir: Jonathan Benthall is to be congratulated for making the case so urgently for the retributive element in punishment (Spectator 16 July) We might agree till Doomsday about......

Baffled

Sir: I have read Xan Smiley's piece on the Rhodesian atrocities (9 July) more than once, and still don't know what he is meaning to convey. He says 'the African concept of......