After The Bird
Sir: As an ex-prisoner who has becorne rehabilitated in spite of, rather than because of this country's penal sYs," tern, it was good to read Jim Daly s lucid exposition of the......
161sh Granted Sir
I lk see that Rodney Milnes would ilo e to hear the counter-tenor James wtnan singing in Handel opera. her He need wait only until Novem, , when the Handel Opera Society ' e......
Word Of Welcome
I have only two claims as a reWevser of recent fiction " writes your ii e W an Mr Peter Ackroyd (August " I have never written a novel, never intend to write on e read:„ . .......
In The Club Si
r , I accept the news that food is even clearer in some Common Market countriOS than it is in Britain. ,This goes some way towards prothat ' foodwise ' the Common arket is a......
Non-persons
Sir: I cannot speak-for those whom Cato ('Another Spectator's Notebook,' August 11) terms the abortion lobby; nor for abortionists, whom Cato mistakenly equates with those......
Sir: I Think Cato Is A Little Unfair To Suggest
that Dr. Potts (not Pott) and Rene6 Short would be happy to 'lie down' with Distillers. These whisky millionaires in good faith sent out to the public a most useful drug,......
Watergate
Sir: In his article on the Watergate affair, 'Nixon — America's Charles I?', Hugh Trevor-Roper writes, "The world in general is more interested in American foreign policy than......
Prayers And Petitions
From the Revd R. J. K. Law Sir: Martin Sullivan in his article 'Prayers and Petitions' (August 11), has succeeded in removing the sting out of his otherwise challenging article......
Errata
Sir: One or two inadvertent errors appeared in my letter which you published last week under the heading Apologia transfugae, to accompany one or two pieces of calculated......
Wells And Kipling
Sir: My taste for science-fiction is less well-developed than that of Kingsley Amis, but I was impressed by his review of Arthur C. Clarke's new novel (August 4) and found his......
Thinking French
Sir: In The Spectator of August 4, 1973, Professor Simon Schama writes in his review of J. F. Bernard's biography of Talleyrand: "If, subsequently he had not quite succeeded in......
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