9 JANUARY 1982, page 16

News From Israel

News from Israel Sir: I would like to know if you deliberately avoid reporting on the Arab-Israeli question. In the last two months very interesting and important developments......

Claud Cockburn

Claud Cockburn Sir: My late father, Claud Cockburn, would have enjoyed reading Paul Johnson's article on him in your last issue. Johnson says that as 'a recorder of political......

Life On A Grant

Letters Life on a grant Sir: Richard West (19 December) writes that the Government is to raise student grants to £70 a week. This, he suggests, is due to students having the......

Paid To Believe?

Paid to believe? Sir: Reviewing the late Desmond Stewart's The Foreigner: A Search for the First Century Jesus (I 9-26 December), A. N. Wilson alleges that 'almost no paid-up......

Suffer The Little Children

Suffer the little children Sir: I really must take exception to Auberon Waugh's remarks about Christmas (12 December). He says, with regard to Samantha Brown's drawing, that any......