Causes In Portugal
Sir: Whenever a political cause becomes the object of popular enthusiasm, that cause tends to become obscured by idealism. One can readily understand Conservative enthusiasm......
Sir: In The Spectator Correspondence (august 30) There Is An
amazing call to arms from Michael Calvert, addressed to "young men of affluence in Britain today who are bored and lack belief in their leaders and government" urging them to......
Sir: Isn't Brigadier Calvert's Suggestion (august 30) . ,...
any large scale, likely to encourage civil war, rather than the orderly establishment of social democracy: One thinks of Spain — of Chile — of Vietnam — and of Cambodia!). Peter......
The Spectator
Sir: May 1 contribute three ayes,and one no after reading the Letters to the Editor (August 23) on how to improve the Spectator. 1. I agree with Lord Shinwell, who calls for......
Sir: Most Of The Spectator Readers Will Comprise Opinion...
divers activists, the politically committed, with a very few truly detached intellectually. All publications such as yours, must inevitably expose a distinctive identity over......
Sir: Doesn't Mr M. J. Feaver Know (august 30) That
The Spectator's magic is in priding itself on its courage to change its mind? Don't we read it for the pleasure of disagreeing and for knowing that our grumbles will be taken in......
Sir: If You Really Want To Improve The Spectator You
could start by printing it in black upon white instead of grey upon grey. A more easily legible type-face and the return of Auberon Waugh from his present exile would be two......
Sales And Losses
Sir: I would like to draw your attention to Robert Ashley's article (August 30) headed "Losing sales in a 'growth' market", in which he implies that it is "better to go for......
Manipulated Fetuses
From Lord Houghton of Sower - by' Sir: The six aborted fetuses in the propaganda advertisement you publish from LIFE (August 30) first appeared in The Spectator four years ago,......
Tax Protest
Sir: With the recent introduction of Capital Transfer Tax I have been reluctantly compelled to resign from the Revenue; I would appreciate your letting me say why through your......
Rights And Realities
Sir: Having no interest in Mr Wilson's , views on even the weather, I did not listen to his broadcast. But against a background of government borrowings of £25 million a day I......
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