Judicial Views

Sir: Since most public law cases involve cow flicts between state interests, including moral welfare and the preservation of lav . / and order, and individual interests, which......

Engineering

Sir: The government-appointed Committee of Inquiry into the engineering profession, of which I am chairman, is anxious to conduct an analysis of the distribution and deployment......

Thomas Hardy

Sir: In his appreciative and most thoughtful summing up of Hardy (11 March), Christopher Booker does not mention one metaphysical watershed in Western history, the publication......

Gay Fraction

Sir: Poor Richard Ingrams! I am sorry he is so offended (4 March) by nasty homosexuals being allowed on television. After all, there are only about three million homosexuals in......

Blind Eye

Sir: Having just caught the British Museum's exhibition of eighteenth-century French landscapes I am still puzzled by your reviewer's denunciation of these artists for their......

Official Tidiness?

Sir: I wonder if anyone else has been struck with the horrid suspicion that one of the main reasons for delivering all those Russians into the embrace of that great and good man......

Down Mammary Lane

Sir: Jeffrey Bernard's reference to 'torpedo-shaped tits' of the 'fifties brought back very happy memories. As an enthusiastic exponent of this now dated female weaponry, I......