15 JANUARY 1972, page 17

The Irish Mess

Sir: It is interesting if unoriginal VOr The Spectator to decide that a united Ireland provides the final solution to our problems. Glads tone and Asquith as well as every hedge......

Sir: Your Correspondent Mr Jack Barker (december 18) Is...

in thinking that the Government of Northern Ireland is a timocracy either in principle or in Practice' There is no property qualification for holding office (or for voting). If......

Quizmastery

Sir: As you have not defended the Subtle compiler of your Prime Ministers Quiz (Letters, January 8) (Unless indeed he did not realise his own subtlety), allow me to point out......

Sincerely, Delfont

Sir: In the course of an extremely enthusiastic review of the film Family Life (January 1) Tony Palmer states that he is " sure those who put up the money must have wrung their......

Criminal Offence

Sir: It is kind of your Bookbuyer to say that this firm is one of the two main challengers to the hypothetically " leading " publishers of thrillers. But to say that we......

The Noble Breed

From Lord Sudeley Sir: I was saddened by your article on the honours system (January 8), in which Mr Macpherson said that the "hereditary principle is extremely questionable as......

Mintoff's Majority

Sir: Whatever one may think of Dom Mintoff's policies, it is grossly unfair to imply, as some newspapers have done, that he is a pocket dictator.' Mintoff leads a democratically......