20 JULY 1974, page 5

Understanding Ulster

Sir: Lord O'Neill's notes on Ulster may bewilder as much as they enlighten. True he began by recalling the familiar charges of discrimination against certain of his former......

Football Plans And Prospects

Sir: Mr Wilson may know more about football than he does aboutpolitics; one Only hopes that The Spectator knows more about politics than about football. The eulogy accorded to......

Of Raw Nerves

Sir: I seem to have touched your theatrical critic, Mr Kenneth Hurren, on a raw nerve some two years ago when I wrote to The Spectator welcoming his bad review of my play Don't......

Homosexuality And The Church

Sir: No doubt there are still plenty of people like Mr Chowdharay-Best who will go burbling on about what St Paul and other heroes of ancient and sacred texts are alleged to......

Abortion

Sir: Dr Margaret White, that staunch pillar of the Mothers' Union, asks me for yet more statistical evidence of Catholic wickedness. I never like to refuse a lady! As recently......

Sir: John Linklater's Commendable Mention (june 29) Of...

rates" prompted H. L. Edwards (July 6) to make light of it all, including 90,000 women from abroad, 1970 to 1972. My letter (December 8, 1973) made clear how the spiritual......

Tax Anomalies

Sir: Over many years and through successive governments of both parties, single people have been made to bear an unfair share of the tax burden. I most willingly pay my taxes to......