Sir: While Your Suggestion (15 November) Fat Replacing...
of Lords by a senate and making the House of Commons the electoral college responsible for electing senators Will undoubtedly prevent excessive power being vested in the Prime......
Familiar Stranger
Sir : Your two American correspondents (15 November) display a very smart hand at distor- tion in their dire predictions of Mr Nixon's difficulties and failures to come. Murray......
A Modest Proposal
Sir: As you rightly say (15 November), now that the hereditary peerage is to be stripped of all legislative status, the argument for creating life peers collapses. And in the......
Sir : Mr Lawson's 'theory Of By-elections' (8 November)...
the misleading nature of con- ventional swing calculations and suggests a way of allowing for the effects of abstention. But his theory has no bearing whatever upon the result......
A New Theory Of By-elections
Sir: I should like to make some observations on Mr Lawson's new theory of by-elections (8 November): 1. Nobody disputes that swing is a crude measurement. It ignores factors......
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