26 JUNE 1976, page 19

Private Eye

Sir : I had been meaning to write and thank you for your courageous and admirable support for Private Eve during our recent and continuing difficulties. As far as I know your......

The Sage Replies Sir: Mr Booker's Misgivings About...

are too familiar—and the reply to them is too obvious—to justify further imposition on your readers. The only remarkable thing IS that he should have chosen to air them Publicly......

Legal Absurdity Sir: Your Columnist In 'notebook' On 12 June

rightly points out what appears to be the unlawfulness of telling the truth in certain circumstances because of the , Rehabilitation of Offenders Act. Might I point out a......

Immigration Sir: In Your Issue Of 19 June Amit Roy

says that it is not true that a significant proportion of immigrants are here illegally. Yet Praful Patel, secretary of the committee on UK citizenship, estimated in October......

Discrim'nation

Sir : It was predictable that collusion would take place between the Government and Oppoisition parties to ensure that nothing hinders the Private Member's Bill which will......

Lack Of Confidence

Sir: Such self-confidence as may remain to us, such lingering respect in which the foreigner may hold us, is hardly fortified by an all-out display of national masochism like......

Stick And Bulger Sir: Can Any Spectator Readers Help Me?

What is a bulger? I'm collecting up the old songs of girls' schools and women's colleges before co-education means they vanish. I have come across this verse from Westfield......