10 FEBRUARY 1967, page 14

What's Wrong With The Tories?

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Sir, — Your Correspondent J. C. Jones Suggests A Scale Of...

in family allowances, commensur- ate with the number of children after the third. By the same token, a rebate might be granted to all elderly childless couples, and the elderly......

Ste2ping The Rot

SIR,—Mrs Dougal (Letters, February 3) is, con- sciously or not, back with the emotional anti- fluoridationalists, teaching dentists the facts of life —and the aetiology of......

Sir,—in Your Article `what's Wrong With The Tories?' You...

'Mr Heath and his colleagues need to remember first that for the time being the public is simply not interested in any ideas of its own the Opposition may have.' The Tories will......

The Great Manny Mystery

SIR,—May I be allowed to correct Alan Watkins when he states (February 3) that Dr Balogh was 'first introduced to the mysteries of British politics . . . as speechwriter to Mr......

Family Allowances

SIR,—Mr Jones (January 27) is rightly concerned about rumours that family allowances are to be raised from the third child on—but for the wrong reasons. Evidence from a number......

Psychedelic Pierfest

AFTERTHOUGHT By JOHN WELLS The press conference in the Regency Rooms of the Charing Cross Hotel was unusually peaceful. The drink-crazed raggedly eccentric journalists of......