Electoral Reform

Sir: The desire of Sheila Donaldson (10 April) to make our parliamentary system responsive to majority opinion does her credit, but I submit that the very factors Which make the......

Planning

Sir: I applaud Mr Christopher Booker's attack on the Community Land Act (10 April). His message is that 'positive' town planning has been a djsaster. I think it reasonably......

Marxists And Workers Sir: Auberon Waugh's Class War...

hi s tory (Spectator 3 April) regards the liberal middle classes as being the enlightened and progressive ones while Marxist materialists see the working class as the only......

Arab Women

Sir: Andrew Faulds says the Saudi Arabian 'woman's role is the Scots one of hearth, bed and board. And with our declining social disciplines, who is to decry that ?' This would......

Mcmahon Correspondence Sir: Mr J. S. F. Parker Seems To

feel (3 April) that as Palestine was not among the territories specifically excluded from McMahon's letters to King Hussain, the Arabs were justified in assuming that it was......

Cleveland Street Sir: While Indulging In The Occasional...

I may not have the literary elegance of style shown by your reviewer Benny Green, who takes me to task for what he calls my 'syntactical chromosomes' in his review of my book......

The Thirteenth Tribe

Sir: I read with interest Philip Mason's admirable review of Arthur Koestler's The Thirteenth Tribe (10 April). There is ample reliable historical evidence in support of Mr......