5 OCTOBER 1974, page 5

Sir: As The Family Planning Association Consider...

the field of sex education than all the great men of the past, would they not also be very good at the job of hastening blooming by opening rose buds with their fingers? J. A.......

Going U P

From the Editor of 'Child and Family' Sir: On returning from the World Population Conference, 1 had the good lOrtune to be sitting next to Dr John L inklater on the plane from......

Mo Rochroille?

S ir: I am always surprised, made to feel i nferior and riot a little frightened by !hose who are able to see complex issues al stark black and white. "As in all the recent......

Tut! Tut!

S ir: A common mistake has been a Pearing more and more often in the Spectato r , e.g. B. Green (September 7) writes "Blitski and myself arranged • . David Welsh 16 .1 Tower......

False Development?

From the Hon. Executive Secretary of the 7lent Society for International Develop 1 Professor Joan Robinson, reviewing °}1 0 White's book, The Politics of , a reigri Aid (The......

The Best?

Sir: Mr Patrick Cosgrave (September 28), is far too modest. He himself is a much better writer than Mr Henry Fairlie and may well be The Spectator's greatest political columnist......

Oil Folly

Sir: I regret to see your note (September 21) that the views of Mr Stephen Probyn, making the case against nationalisation of North Sea oil, are not those of The Spectator. They......

Riposte

From the Creative Director of Orbis Publishing Limited Sir: You comments in the 'Bookend' column of the Spectator of September 14 have caused me considerable embarrassment. The......

Conversation Piece

From Mrs 0. Matthews Sir: The future which is shaping up promises to be more Carrollian than Orwellian. A shade of hyperbole could result in the following conversation.......