5 AUGUST 1978, page 15

Militants

Sir: Did you know that Jill Craigie's review (29 July), which kindly placed my Separate S.Pheres 'among standard works on the subject', was really a spoof, and was written by a......

The Retreat From Work

Sir: You express thankfulness (29 July) that We no longer have the lash of poverty to drive people to work. Yet the carrot works only when the donkey is hungry; the stick is......

Not Wilde, Walpole

Sir: The editorial in the Spectator of 29 July was its usual masterly and elegantly written self: this made its unusual lapse from accuracy all the more astonishing — Wilde did......

Upstairs, Downstairs

Sir: How pleasant to read Peregrine Worsthorne's unfashionable and discerning panegyric on domestic service (July 22). He is surely not quite accurate though in saying that......

Saint Thomas More

Sir: If Auberon Waugh had bothered to find out what Cardinal Hume actually said he might have been struck, as I was, by an explicit reference to the fact that More actually gave......

Sick Sport

Sir: 'After all,' I wrote last Saturday, 'what distinguishes people from each other is their egos, not their ids, nor indeed their unconscious superegos, and once we have......