In The Grip Of Giro
Sir: I hope Peter J. Smith (1 August—'In the grip of the system') and other Giro specialists will not have missed the advertisement in the Sunday papers recently for the present......
Short Pencil
Sir: I am an author. I draft in pencil, so I accumulate pencil ends too short to be used in comfort, too long to be thrown away without making me feel that I am adding to the......
Conservative Kidology
Sir: Many outside his own party have hitherto admired Mr Maudling despite his serious mishandling of the economy before Labour took over in 1964. and his failure since to admit......
Saying The Unsayable
Sir: M. M. Carlin (Letters, 12 September) sug- gests that Wordsworth and Archimedes had low IQS and would have been unable to escape the slave traders if born in Africa. He......
The Day Before Yesterday
Sir: Is it not sad that Thames iv in an hour- long programme on one of our greatest states- men—and certainly one greatest foreign secre- tary in modern times—can produce many......
Arab/israel Commentaries
Sir: I really have been immeasurably depressed by your recent issue (19 September). Firstly, your leader-writer (could it have been your retiring editor?) should not have......
Down With Trendies
Sir: Progressive Thinking these days rejects not only intelligence testing but also the fact that intelligence is largely a matter of inheritance. The baleful influence of the......
The True University
Sir: If I were Dr Smith (19 September) I would forget my sojourn in America (apparently and regrettably an obligation for today's education- ist). omit the moral justification......
Murder In The Name Of God
Sir: African villagers in Angola have no cause to thank our addlepated clerics. Some might even wonder why they support enemies of the state with violence from the atheist East.......
The Pop Generation
Sir: You say in your admirable leading article (much the best public comment so far) on the 10AV jamboree (5 September) that the participants themselves were not decadent even......
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