Crime And Punishment
Sir: Reginald Maudling's article o n 'Alternatives to Prison' (July, 20) was" sympathetic and timely commentorY on the current crisis in the prison population. The Home Offie'e......
Sir: Mr Reginald Maudling Is Talking The Same Old Load
of rubbish we've heard for the last nineteen years (Alternative to Prison,' July 26). Successive Home Secretarys (and he Was one of our very worst) during those years, haven't......
Ulster Policy
Sir: I agree with Mr Clifford Smyth that if HMG were to betray the Loyalists to the IRA "a new campaign surrounded by outside revolutionary forces and strengthened by success......
Scottish Nationalism
Sir: Your editorial on Scotland (July 26) Was despicable. Who would believe that 'currently fashionable devolutionary ideas" go back beyond Bonnie Prince......
Israel And The Un
Sir: May I endorse the sentiments expressed by Maurice Samuelson in The Spectator of July 26 ('Good place to be expelled from'), and add that it is surely most appropriate that......
Public Lending Right
Sir: From time to time you publish comments on public lending right of such ignorance that I wonder whether it would not bd a good idea for you to invite, say, Maureen Duffy or......
Clarence Darrow
Sir: As an American, I find it good that such an essentially American entertainment as Darrow is warmly received in London, but Peter Cotes errs on three points in his comments......
Leavis And Creativity
.Sir: Mr Nelder (July 26) doesn't appear to have learnt how to read at the level required for an understanding of Dr Leavis's essay. The science that breeds the progress should,......
Sermons In Stones
From Sir Patrick Nairne Sir But Samuel Palmer was not alone. 14 - ow can Jan Morris (August 2) have forgotten Turner — and in his 200th anniversary year? Patrick Nairne South......