Evidence Invited
Sir: I am writing, as chairman of the Royal Commission on Criminal Procedure in England and Wales, to ask for the help of your readers in our work. The task which we have before......
Mrs T And Immigration
Sir: Why should we take Mrs Thatcher's recent immigration speeches seriously When the 1970 Tory Manifesto, A Better Tomorrow, stated that `There will be no further large scale......
Deir Yassin
Sir: A disagreement seems to have arisen between David M. Jacobs and Susannah Greenberg in their attempts to defend Menahem Begin. Mr Jacobs wants us to distrust Arab writings......
Bored By Deir Yassin
Sir: Surely I cannot be the only reader to be unutterably bored by that dreary correspondence about Deir Yassin? Has it really continued for three months or does it just seem......
A Poet's Words
Sir: with reference to Emma Fisher's review (4 February) of Barbara Norman's Selected Poems, it hardly seems proper to write that 'the book is full if isic I misprints and......
Nobility
Sir: Being noble in the only sense accepted by Mr Peregrine Worsthorne (4 February), Hilaire Belloc was too sensitive a realist to confuse this admirable virtue of nobility with......
The Birth Rate
Sir: Auberon Waugh tells us (Crowing old gracefully, 11 February) that a decline in live births from 980,000 in 1966 to 676,000 in 1976 is a drop of very nearly 45 percent. I......
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