30 SEPTEMBER 1972, page 28

Ugandan Asians

Sir: Mr N. A. Smith's letter (Spectator, September 9) on Ugandan Asians makes miserably unwholesome reading, to say the least. I would have dismissed it as completely unworthy......

Wartime Rackets

Sir: In his autobiography, Lord Wigg cites the story of an "officer who ran horses," and who "actually drew pay, stores and equipment for a non-existent Arab battalion;" who, in......

Rogered

Sir: Frank Alan Thompson (Letters, September 9) suggests that in my discussion of the supernatural (19 August) I may have confused Roger Bacon's "four major sources of error"......

The First Flight

Sir: In science the unpardonable sin is a fractional truth, a device Mr Stewart (Spectator, September 2) employs to assert his bias, and / or ignorance. Which maybe is why the......

C.. Day-lewis

Sir: I have been commissioned to write a biography my father, the late Poet Laureate C. Day-Lewis, I would be grateful for the sight of any relevant letters or papers, which......

Covent Garden

Sir: Minette Marrin's article on Covent Garden (Spectator September 16) is such a tissue of illinformed peculation that I hardly know where to begin a reply, but a reply is......