8 SEPTEMBER 1979, page 19

The Counties

Sir: Christopher Booker's suggestion for the restoration of the old counties (25 August) could not have come at a more auspicious moment. His advocacy of further discussion and......

Containing The Ira

Sir: In your last issue most of the editorial section is devoted to the latest IRA atrocities and the Irish problem: diagnosis aplenty, but little in the way of prescription. It......

Bloodthirsty

Sir: The return of 'El Cordobes' to the bullring (Notebook 11 August) may have whetted the appetites of bloodthirsty crowds in Spain but it will not impress those who condemn......

Moderate Sir: There Is Nothing A Good Extreme Moderate Likes

better than being attacked by a Silly Immoderate — except, perhaps, being attacked by two. So when I discovered that I'd been attacked on the same day by Mr Wheatcroft in the......