10 APRIL 1982, page 18

Sisterwrite

Sir: Feminist-bashing as a Spectator sport is not my concern, but bookshop-bashing definitely is (Roy Kerridge, 13 March). In a country in which the standard and number of......

No Disqualification

Sir: I have always believed that an author should accept with equanimity the bouquets and brickbats flung by reviewers. But PhillP Warner's comments on The Bitter End ( 27......

Sir: Surely The Point Of Murray Sayle's Arti - Cle In

your issue of 27 March is that Japan imports its fuel froth the Arabs, who imPo . r l manufactured goods from the West, who in turn import manufactured goods from, Japan; and......

Fair Trading

Sir: Murray Sayle's article (27 March) was long by the Spectator's standards, but every word was totally absorbing. He points out clearly and shrewdly that the Japanese are......

Letters

Statistical reasoning Sir: Ferdinand Mount's sensible discussion of the electoral impact of the Alliance (3 April) rightly stresses that this cannot be measured on the basis of......