24 JULY 1971, page 29

The Constitutional Position Of The Queen

Sir : Now that the gaff has been blown and we know that Mr Heath in a passion of self-opinion rarely equalled since the days of Charles I and never since those of Neville......

A Wind In The City

Sir: I too have heard what Skinflint reports (17 July), that certain City fathers are perturbed by the freethinking of those who occupy our visitor's pulpit. In fact, I am......

A Threat To Peace?

Sir: Mr Macpherson wrote that there are three distinct moral approaches to the racialist regimes in Southern Africa. I submit that there is a fourth approach to the position in......

In Defence Of Lennon

Sir: Mr John Lennon and Miss Yoko Ono complained on television (Michael Parkinson show, July 17) that they have been abused by the popular press. On the evidence of their......

Paisley And Porter

Sir: I was deeply moved by your touching little cameo 'Charity and dignity' (Notebook, July 10). It seems a great pity that the Rev Ian Paisley cannot be persuaded to preach......

Dear Post Office

Sir: Some months ago, doubtless at some expense, the Post Office informed me that I now had a postcode. Bully for them. Only they forgot to tell themselves as the telephone bill......

Don't Blame The Doctors

Sir: I hope I have misread Dr Rowan Wilson's essay (July 10). Ho states that a decision to abort a patient (perhaps to open her abdomen and womb and so destroy the foetus)......

Candidates' List

Sir: I read with more than passing interest the letter from Mr Howard Thomas about the revision of the Conservative Central Office Candidates' List. A nephew of mine has just......

Agents' Loyalties

Sir: As one of the ' Jesuits ' to whom Hugh Macpherson referred last week, may I explain to him and to your readers, that a Conservative agent does not owe loyalty " direct to......

Sun Shine

Sir: Dennis Hackett says the estimated circulation of the Sun is "said to be" about 2,080,000. Said by whom? The published, audited ABC figure for June is 2,352,126. The average......

Ulster Answer

Sir: If we accept the gospel according to St Mark (Bonham Carter) as having the divine authority that he appears to believe that it has we learn that criticism of any racial or......