9 OCTOBER 1971, page 29

The Market And The Prerogative

Sir: The Common Market differs from all ordinary political questions in several respects. In the first place, a decision to join the Common Market would be irrevocable, at least......

Militant Liberals

From Dr J. L. Insley Sir: Mr L. Clarke (September 11) really cannot be allowed to get away with it. Wearing the shining armour of militant liberalism is no excuse for......

Is Tony Palmer Real?

Sir: While appreciating in principle the creation of a character whose monstrous opinions and comic posturings can be used for the subtle denigration of the age-group he is......

Sir: How Percipient Of Tony Palmer (september 25) To...

that black Africa is not like Hampstead Garden Suburb. How kind of him to let us know. It doesn't matter that the public executions in Nigeria are stale news to readers of Drum.......

Sir: In Your Issue Of September 18 Tony Palmer Attempts

to draw a comparison between Zola's Earth and the magazine Oz, in that they were both prosecuted for obscenity and their attitude alarmed people. Yet Earth was proscribed by a......

Worth Seeing?

Sir. From The Spectator's (September 25) Worth Seeing in London . . . 'sensitive handling makes even incest seem acceptable.' With our faces in the gutter, are we all losing......

Museum Charges

Sir: I have read with interest your analysis (Spectator's Notebook, September 25) of the memorandum prepared by Mr Andrew Faulds, MP, which criticises the Government's handling......

The Pakistani Refugees

From Dr N. R. Sengupta Sir: It is only a week since the Spectator of June 19 reached me because, thanks to the Israel/ Egypt hostilities, magazines or journals take two months......