18 OCTOBER 1969, page 25

Local Differences

Sir: Many people in Scotland do not appear to be as happy about the Wheatley Report as Mr Thompson seems to think they ought to , be ('Spectator's notebook', 4 October). A short......

Church, Change And Decay

Sir: How wholeheartedly I agree with your correspondent, Mrs Pamela Matthews, when she writes sadly (Letters, 4 October) that the case for moral leadership by the Church of......

Afterthought

Law and ordure JOHN WELLS A Rubbish Collection Depot. Deserted dust- carts are parked behind a wire mesh fence, and on the pavement in the foreground there is a little heap of......

A Letter To My Son

Sir: It would have been more to the point had Simon Raven (11 October) presented his son with a large package of contraceptives, before sending him off with fond father's......

Life Without Soul

Sir: In his review of Christopher Mayhew's hook (4 October), Mr Quintin Hogg pays tribute to the economic thinking of Lord Keynes regarding full employment, but denies praise to......

Dream Queen

Sir: Neither the last sentence of Lytton Strachey's Queen Victoria (20 September) nor the sentence from Nicholas Nickleby chosen by Thede Palm (Letters, 11 October) can be......