In Vino Veritas
Sir: 'Sour grapes about California'? It seems more like sour grapes about Britain (2 August). Decanter magazine's tastings are held blind, and are objective, analytical......
An Unfair Cop
Sir: On returning from a little rural eating in the Touraine on The Spectator's behalf, letters to you from a Mr Sawyer (26 July) and a Mr Duffy (9 August) have come to my......
Helping With Enquiries
Sir: Reading Jeffrey Bernard's and Jenny Forbes's comments (Low life, 5 July and Letters, 26 July) on the importance the police attach to the birth dates of victims of and......
Scottish Dancing
Sir: The Kirov Ballet Company has been showing the classics to full houses over the past five weeks at the Coliseum in London (Arts, 2 August). The classics clearly have a huge......
Captain Pugwash
Sir: I am the creator, writer and artist of the Captain Pugwash books and television films. My attention has been drawn to a television review in your 31 May issue in which the......
Good Troupers
Sir: Those many actors who like myself were trained in the hard school of weekly repertory will be somewhat amused at the almost universal comments of theatre crit- ics......
Sir: If 'scottish Ballet' Is Heading Towards Oblivion,...
be greeted with equanim- ity. The idea of Scottish ballet calls up a spectrum of rather distasteful images, from the general idea of a bureaucrat-run `cul- ture' unable to......
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