13 JUNE 1987, page 28

Too Keen

Sir: Doris Heifer (Diary, 30 May) writes of Tony Benn's spirit of optimism and the very warm welcome he received in Liver- pool. She adds a PS 'Those politicians who say they......

Mr Kinnock's Heart

Sir: Why you should publish a letter (6 June) from an obvious shit like Sampson, heaven alone knows! One meets people like him all over the world who sneer at goodness and moral......

Spits On Images

Sir: I buy the Spectator every week to read. Starting at the back with Jeffrey Bernard I work through the excellent reviews past Paul Johnson's nonsense, and, dodging the......

Ancestral Rights In Fiji

Sir: May I seek to throw some light on current events in Fiji and particularly in defence of Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka, who seems widely to have been traduced in the media at......

Royal Scotland

Sir: With reference to Hugh Montgomery- Massingberd's article on the Scottish court (25 April). George IV was, as he says, the first of the Hanoverian Kings to visit Scotland;......

Green Poetry

Sir: On tucking into the recently published Selected Literary Criticism of Louis Mac- Neice, praised for his 'filial piety' in P.J. Kavanagh's Life and Letters (9 May), I find......

Letters

Leaders Sir: I found Andrew Gimson's panegyric on the 'brilliant populism' of the Sun's leader writer (`Take me to your leader writer', 6 June) curious for what if left out.......

Sir: Anyone Can Write A Daily Mirror Leader. For Instance..

. Granny Haines died yesterday in Burnley. She was only 91. Had she lived in Bournemouth, she would have been 92. Had the Health Service paid for rejuvena- tion treatment......

The Spectator

SUBSCRIBE TODAY - Save 15% on the Cover Price! Please enter a subscription to The Spectator I enclose my cheque for £ (Equivalent SUS & Eurocheques accepted) Outside Europe......