Badgers And Tb
Sir: Patrick Marnham made a number of good points about farming in his 'Country life' piece in your issue of 3 June. However, he was on less sure — and perhaps more emotional —......
Metric Madness
Sir: Readers will realise, as apparently Lawrence Hills does not, that Government does not control measurement system used in books: Mr Hills's books can use imperial as long as......
Coypu Country
Sir: Simon Courtauld's reference to coypus in the Notebook (13 May) prompts me to enlighten him and his ageing friend on one or two points. These rodents cannot live or breed......
Waugh's English
Sir: Before expatiating on the mote in the eye of his brother Evans, the Sage of Combe Florey might care to consider the beam in his own. First, he quotes (27 May) Evans's......
Philistine
Sir: The Editor of the New Statesman can quote Scripture to serve his purpose, but in his own revised version. He preaches to Spectator readers (Letters, 3 June) from the......
Sir Dudley North
Sir: I read Patrick Cosgrave's review ef Charlotte and Denis Plimmer's book A Mauer of Expediency (3 June) with interest and would only disagree when he writes that, 'it is......
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