21 MAY 1983, page 20

Letters

Ante-post betting Sir: Genial Jo Grimond's advice to 'not bother reading the opinion polls before 6 June' is like telling the punter at the track to close his eyes until the......

Test-tube Babies

Sir: Mr James Hughes-Onslow did indeed visit me at the Monash University Centre for Human Bioethics, but there is not much else that is accurate about his report, 'Nine months......

High Old Times

Sir: The Spectator has had a high old time over the past three weeks at the expense of the Sunday Times. Indeed you have devoted almost as much space to Hitler's diaries as we......

The Oxford Shakespeare

Sir: 1. I am glad that Mr Wells agrees (Let- ters, 30 April) that Jonson's lines ... with three rusty swords, And help of some few foot-and- half-foot words, Fight over York and......