Whacko!
Sir: Charles Moore's excellent article on Anthony Chenevix-Trench (Another voice, 7 May), and all the excitement in the press about flogging and the horrors of corporal......
Sir: When I Read Taki's Intelligent And Humane Thoughts On
the corporal punish- ment meted out to Michael Fay in Singa- pore (High life, 16 April), I could not help wishing that, if Taki should ever again decide to travel abroad with a......
Bucharest Bargain
Sir: John Nickson, ENO, asks: 'Where else does Mr Christiansen expect the general public to enjoy large-scale opera at an aver- age price of £25?' (Letters, 7 May). Last week I......
Sir: Those Of Us Who Suffered From, Or Administered, School
beatings remember the practice as one that was peculiarly English and essentially masculine — hence le vice anglais. Imagine, then, our distress at finding (the caption to last......
Major's Man
Sir: In last week's Spectator (Politics, 7 May) your columnist, Simon Heffer, describes me as relentlessly campaigning on behalf of Mr Heseltine. This allegation is untrue and......
Branson Pickle
Sir: Richard Branson challenges Spectator readers to name a business venture he has abandoned (Letters, 30 April). Is he nar- rowing the challenge to you to those ven- tures......
Hidden Agenda
Sir: I suggest that John Learmonth hangs onto his copy of Teach Yourself Practical Concreting and awards another of his books LETTERS to a 'suitably boring person' (Letters, 30......
Sir: Richard Branson Laments The Condem- Nation Of His...
plans for County Hall by Tony Banks and three other Labour MPs, and asks what else the build- ing could possibly be used for. Might one suggest that it could quite profitably be......
Pure Coincidence
Sir: Is any similarity between the title of Paul Johnson's new book, Wake Up, Britain! and the Nazis' early slogan, 'Deutschland erwach!' purely accidental? Francis Nation-Dixon......
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