9 DECEMBER 1978, page 18

Entirely Ported The Legend. The Truth Is C At On One

side of the paper is written: 'All etans are liars' and on the other: 'I am a Reading this sort of thing in the Spectator, „,...was reminded of President Ford in a cievisiort......

Scientology

Sir: Your article of 25 November, 'Cults and the death wish', I find to be quite intriguing. Christopher Booker, however, I ant afraid by attempting to explain spiritual values......

Ars Poetica

Sir: In the poem you kindly printed to celebrate the Professor of Poetry election at Oxford! omitted to include three candidates — Ronald Duncan and the two others (I forget......

Cabbies

Sir: In the Spectator Notebook (24 November), Alexander Chancellor referred to an instance of a taxi driver who refused, illegally, to take him to his destination. In an effort......

Stoppard Hemmed In

Sir: Richard Ingrams wonders ( 2 December) whether his reaction to finding Tom Stoppard on television a bore is because he is a 'clapped-out man' or because the Bernard Levins......

Causes Of Inflation

Sir: Your correspondent, M.W. Balladon (18 November) is no better at pointing oil t the causes of inflation than the contributo r he takes to task. I should have thought that......