5 JANUARY 1974, page 4

Ireland—imposing Reason

Sir: I should like to comment on some remarks in your December 15 leader. One of these is "the oppression of Catholics for fifty years." This can only mean the oppression of......

Christmas Lamentations

Sir: One may well contrast the pursuit of economic growth with the Christmas message, as you do (December 22), but I feel that while what you say is largely justified, there is......

Sir: I Have Been A Reader Of The Spec Tator

for many , many years, frequently with profit, but I take very grave exception to one phrase in your leading article on the Irish question. The phrase "oppression of the......

Sir: The Relevance Of Biblical Quotations To Problems In...

escapes me. Christianity was probably the main driving force behind the remarkable expansion of Western civilisation. Not infrequently the Christians' message was transmitted......

Military Coup?

Sir: After reading Patrick Cosgrave's recent article on governmental takeover one's feelings muss be mixed. There can be few thinking people who want the present system of......

Medicine And Morality

From Dr Peggy Norris Sir: If Claire Rayner's credibility as a suitable adviser on sex education is to survive she will have to do better than simply accuse Dr J. Linklater and......

Old Friend

Sir: It was good to find that clockwork duck, Mr T. C. SkeffingtonLodge, once more wound up and quacking his platitudes in your pages after so long a silence (December 22). But......

Kenyan Asians

Sir: I read your outrageous editoria l supporting the entry to this country of the Kenyan Asians (December 15). At least in the speed with which you have effected the betrayal......

Eysenck And After

d as Sir: Dr Rhodes Boyson is right to praise Professor Eysenck: his readine ss to defend intelligence testing is indeed courageous in an age haunted bY educational fanaticism......

U And Non-u

Sir: Readers of the current corre s spol y dence are no doubt aware that Mi s Nancy Mitford did not invent the terms U and non-U. In an amusl article she merely developed ,......