7 OCTOBER 1978, page 16

Equity Participation

Sir: How timely and welcome — in the truest sense of that trite phrase — to find Nicholas Davenport (30 September) coming out so wholeheartedly in favour of the 'simple idea of......

Corporative

Sir: How can any state be other than a corporate state? The term you should be using (as in your leading article of 30 September) is the corporative state: the reference is......

In Reply • • .

Sir: On the whole I believe that journalists should be prepared to take the kind of criticism which they themselves dish out, and I have not therefore replied until now to the......

'the Great Fear'

Sir: Mr Worsthorne's review (23 September) of David Caute's The Great Fear is, I am sure, just. In one detail I suspect he is wrong. Surely the title does not refer to Robert......

Nadir Of The Liberals

Sir: 'What does the Liberal Party. . stand for? What is it saying? It stands for nothing and it says nothing' — but your editorial of 16 September, gloomily accurate though it......

'advisers' For Zambia

Sir: It is reported by your contemporary the Daily Telegraph — and for all! know elsewhere in the national press— that the Prime Minister expressed his willingness, at the Kano......

Fine In His Sir: S Ti Cle On Liberal Incompetence

l h i s in your 150th anniversary number (congratulations) Mr Auberon Waugh writes: 'Incompetence is, as I say, the moving spirit of the times. A few professions are still......