Stop Wincing
Sir: What a susceptible man poor A. N. Wilson must be. I am sure that no knight's widow wants him to be in pain — actually wincing, in fact — when he hears the prefix to her......
Racing Certainties
Sir: It is a truth universally acknowledged that pundits exist to be reviled save only when they manage to get something com- pletely and utterly wrong; only then, like the......
Broad Church
Sir: `. . Like Northcliffe before him, he [Mr Rupert Murdoch] is determined to have a go and see how a cheap Times will fare. I think he will be proved wrong, as of course......
John Betjeman
Sir: This is a last call for copies of letters from my father John Betjeman. I wonder if any readers might have any which I could include in my edition? Candida Lycett Green......
Please Enlighten
Sir: In Hilary Corke's review (Books, 28 August) `. . all creative endeavour is a sort of cock-snooking at the dark'. How does one snook a cock, how would it respond, and what......
A Taste For Parrots
Sir: From observation from 8,000 miles away, I think that Roderick Smart is doing a good job (`Cutting the old school tie', 21 August). My impression is that the Oxford and......
Quotations In Context
Sir: Your correspondent Mr Nikolic offers two isolated quotations from the writings of President Izetbegovic which, he would like readers to believe, express sinister plans for......
Spectator
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