27 JUNE 1981, page 19

The Price Of Benn

Sir: Tony Rudd's piece (13 June) attributing the recent collapse of sterling to the emergence of Mr Benn is pure fantasy. If he really believes that investors have sold sterling......

Livingstone's London

Sir: While putting Auberon Waugh up with Richard Ingrams near the top of my list of 'great journalists of all time', 1 think that both suffer from the weakness of not living in......

Santa Barbara

Sir: The Royal bride's maternal grandmother threatens to boycott the wedding if novelist Barbara Cartland is there (Notebook, 6 June); the lady, together with others, would do......

What To Do?

Sir: For the third week running Richard Ingrams has told us why he did not watch Gay Life. Homosexuality seems to obsess hint and to distort his judgment even to the point where......

Canterbury's Glory

Sir: Richard West (6 June) sympathises with Canterbury as 'a saddening town, much of its old glory ruined by bombs and property men'. Certainly there have been lamentable......

The Argentine Defence

Sir: Much could be written about the recent history of Argentina, and doubtless some of it would be very harrowing and gruesome. But to suggest, as does Nicholas von Hoffman......