10 JULY 1982, page 19

Tv Merchandise

Sir: Yet again Paul Johnson (26 June) calls for free market considerations to dominate television programmes. Can he really be serious? As a form of communication television is......

Sir: As A Convinced Cobdenite Free-trader May I Hope That

when the terms of reference of the inquiry into the origins of the recent Falkland Islands debacle come to be drawn, the recent history of commercial relationships between......

Sir: It Was Wise To Quote The Letter Of An

Anglo-Argentine lady without comment (Notebook, 26 June). The comment might have been intemperate, which this writer is fighting not to be. My connection with Argentina has been......

Nancy Mitford

Sir: I am working on a biography of Nancy Mitford and would be very grateful if any of your readers who knew her, or who have information or papers relating to 'her, would be so......

Letters

The Falkland Islands Sir: As your readers are painfully aware, and as the archives will indelibly confirm, the Spectator lost its nerve over the Falklands war. I imagine that......

Sir: South African Friends And Relations Think Of Their...

in much the same way that the woman correspondent, quoted by Alexander Chancellor (Notebook, 26 June), thinks about her government in Argentina. And, for that matter, the way......