Answering Grigg
Sir: On the subject of freedom and the threat posed to it by the closed shop, Mr John Grigg writes in a careless and uncon vincing fashion (8 October). Freedom without......
Sir: John Grigg's Reply To Those Who Have Attacked Him
in the correspondence column of Spectator is the work of a man on the defensive. He interprets the U-turns of the Heath government as a return to sanity after the doctrinaire......
The Finlay Show
Sir: Your art critic's review of the Ian Hamilton Finlay exhibition (Artyfacts, 8 October) is either a case of sour grapes or the application of a new and curious principle in......
Sir: Through The Welter Of John Mcewen's Wit (above The
Beano and Dandy, say, but beneath Jilly Cooper), one discerns an assortment of unexplained antipathies towards, e.g., cultural analogies, sunshine and flowers, and needlepoint.......
Sir, As One Who Attempts To Follow The Vagaries Of
modern art — bricks and all — as best he can, I remain rather puzzled by your critic's remarks on Ian Hamilton Finlay's exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, which I recently......
Sir: Bravo, John Mcewen. Never Have I Read An Article
in the Spectator with so much relish and deep enjoyment — it was like a blast of clean fresh air entering a putrid atmosphere — as his on Hamilton Finlay and his band of......