17 DECEMBER 1977, page 19

'no' To New Regions

Sir: I was disappointed to read Mr George Gale's article (3 December), arguing for the abolition of county councils and the institutioo of new large regional councils. It seems......

Danger Of Corporatism

Sir: John Biffen's interesting article 'Underestimating Mr Benn' (26 November) makes the point that the aforementioned Tony Benn should not be treated as 'an irrational hate......

Defending Keynes

Sir; How many times is Keynes, like Cromwell, to be exhumed, quartered, and anathematised whilst his achievements are ignored? I only ask because whereas Mr Mount (3 December)......

Angela Thirkell

Sir: I cannot agree with your reviewer of 26 November that my late mother, Angela Thirkell, had 'a stone of a heart'. This has become a smart and fashionable thing to say among......

A Salutary Menace

Sir: The disagreement between myself and the chairman of the Association for the Teaching of the Social Sciences (Letters, I December) is confined, I think, to whether the......