No Invention
Sir: In your most generous profile (6 May), you quoted me as claiming to have in - vented stories for Private Eye. Not SO. There may have been errors of fact, misquotations and......
Rumanian Thorns
Sir: For Professor Roy MacGregor-Hast ie (Letters, 29 April) to assert that living standards in Bucharest in 1968 were higher than they were in London suggests that the aspects......
Mysterious
Sir: Auberon Waugh (Another voice, 29 April) ridicules someone who explained to him 'how glasnost and perestroika wer e cunning ploys, hiding a new determinati on on the part of......
Crowd Concern
Sir: Lord Justice Taylor's commission of inquiry into events at Hillsborough is not a hysterical response to a transient drama, as as Auberon Waugh suggest (Another voice, 6......
Abuse
Sir: In your Christmas edition you pub- lished Nigel Burke's dictionary of weasel words: 'ABUSE.... "He abused his right to remain silent by remaining silent throughout his......
Rank Error
Sir: Roderick Sale (Letters, 25 February) is incorrect to state that rank is granted by the Ministry of Defence — it is the prerogative of HM the Queen to grant military rank,......
Polish Reading
Sir: It is with some delay that I came to know how it happened that I am getting The Spectator every week. I read your letter from 12 January and accompanying discussion with......
Act Of A Madman
Sir: The Spectator's memory is playing tricks. You say (Leader, 6 May) that Mr Hogg and I failed after Hungerford to make the point that you could not legislate against the......
Brief Encounter
Sir: It is a historian's business to correct mistakes for the record (Letters, 6 May). My last encounter with Graham Greene was not 60 years ago, but perhaps 30. A brief......
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