Winking At Perjury
Sir: If I might be permitted to add a note to Dorothy Becker's admirable and important article (March 24), it is unfortunately the case that the right of an ordinary member of......
Sir: There Was A Name For An Earlier Form Of
that abuse of which Dorothy Becker complains; it was called the dispensing power, and it was declared illegal in the Bill of Rights in 1689. Dorothy Becker's article strongly......
Sir: With Regard To Capital Punishment, Hans Keller (like...
war-time Funf) has spoken (Letter in the Times, March 20). The fatal drawback to it is that, in the context of human fallibility, its use is irreparable. And that "for all but......
Capital Punishment
Sir: The correspondence in your columns regarding the possible reintroduction of capital punishment is as timely as it is interesting. No one, who is neither a sadist nor a......
Euthanasia
Sir: Mr Gadd's letter against euthanasia ends with the question, "Why put an end to that?" With your permission, I propose to answer it, and in very simple terms. The shortage......
Nearer To Cod
Sir: In your leading article (March 24) you call upon our Government to defend our fishermen and you suggest that "the essence of the quarrel is simple." I am all in favour of......
Ulster Dissent
Sir: There are two nations in Ireland today, the British-Irish nation, and the Irish-Irish or Gaelic Irish nation. There never was one Irish nation, never even a feudal kingdom......
Sir: If The Government's White Paper Were Implemented, Do...
politicians realise what a dangerous precedent would be created? The indefinite suspension of Stormont was a partial victory for gun-law. Now the terrorists have secured......
From Professor W. H. C. Frend. Sir: The Weakest Part
of the White Paper on Northern Ireland Is indeed it's omission of any specific mention of education, but I believe an attempt to impose secularisation on schools woild be......
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