Sir: I shall, I hope, be one of many to
write to express their sense of outrage that you should have seen fit to print the column contributed by J. R. Bevins (February 3). Clearly you have no high regard for the personal achievements of Mr Heath as Prime Minister of this. country, and you probably have the duty as well as the right to see that your readers know what you think. But it seems to have passed far beyond the limits of good taste which the readers of a presumably serious weekly have a right to expect, that you should allow someone who might hardly be thought from his career to be a very good guide on the subject of political life, to describe the man who has been appointed Prime Minister by the normal democratic processes prevailing in this count ry as ' this boorish man,' the organist who, somehow, happens to be our Prime Minister' and 'worse than the most vainglorious peacock.' Did you consider that Mr Bevins had any special qualifications to inflict his views about Mr Heath on your readers? If so, it would be interesting to know what they are. His use of the expression infinitely more infallible than the Pope' suggests that the use of English is not one of them. H. Justin Evans Glebe House, Church Stretton, Salop
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