13 DECEMBER 1986, page 5

Unlettered

IT MAY depend on the definition of `important', but Lord Rothschild's denial that he had ever been a Soviet agent was the first time an important letter appeared in the Daily......

Roger Cooper

FOR more than a year Roger Cooper, who has written many pieces for the Spectator about the Middle East, has been impris- oned, without being charged, in Teheran. On Monday of......

The Spectator

WRIGHT: THE WRONG FIGHT A s the Wright case continues in the Australian courts, sympathy for the British Government has grown. The initial surge of pleasure at the discomfiture......

President Rod

AFTER a hotly contested election, Dr Rod Hackney, the advocate of community architecture, has secured the presidency of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He deserves......