Channel Two
SIR,—Well, I'm sorry Christopher Booker wasn't feeling well. If he had been, he might have noticed that during the pullover programme, my colleagues in the background were hard......
Sir,—mr. Edgell Claims His Version Of The Paragraph From The
Advertising Standards Association Report is an over-simplification. I call it a plain falsification. To me the clear meaning is: 1. Not all the com- plaints were investigated.......
Liberal Votes
SIR,—Mr. Cooper is puzzled as to how the presence of Liberal candidates in by-elections may have helped the Conservatives. As my letter made clear, the polls which show that......
Long Sentences
S1R,—It worries me that Mr. Sparrow does not even mention the most dismaying feature of these terrible punishments. A term of thirty years in prison (forty in the case of Blake)......
Others Abide Sir,—john Drinkwater (who, Incidentally, Has...
played Henry IV and not Henry VI in the Thirties. (The Falstaff was George Robey.) I would not have mentioned this trivial fact had not your reviewer, Mr. Martin Seymour-Smith,......
The Easter Rebellion
SIR,—Mr. Oliver Martin in his review of Max Caul- field's The Easter Rebellion states: 'without doubt this was as unpopular a rising as Ireland had ever known. One of the heroes......
Why Khrushchev?
SIR,—The name is, of course, Hroostschoff, phonetically speaking. It is spelt in the Cyrillic alphabet with an 'X' as in Xarkhov, Xemnitz or Xristofer. So everybody's right and......
The Language Of Theologians
Sta,—I have been reading theology for almost fifty years and as a result of that experience my 'immedi- ate answer to Sir W. M. James would be, 'They don't.' But perhaps I ,......
Sir,—in Your Issue Of April 17, 1964, 'spectator's...
attention to 'examples of two kinds of corruption of the language.' The final sentence of the paragraph on 'Absentee Voters,' with the substitu- tion of 'will' for 'shall,'......
Doorstep Salesmen
SIR,—I have been commissioned to write a book on the sharp practices of doorstep salesmen, mail-order advertisers and the like; and should be most interested to hear from any of......
Apartheid And The - Press Sir,—while Acknowledging Mr....
there have been many untruthful attacks on South Africa, may I reply briefly to what he considers to be a truthful complaint—that the whites 'batten on the misery' of their......
Plain Words
SIR,—The Times leader 'A Few Plain Words' would appear to have been splendidly vindicated in your last issue by the quite pitiable attempt of the nor- mally intelligent and......
Purpose In Politics Sir,—natural Disapproval Of Mr....
normally be tempered by the knowledge that journalism would be a very dull' business if every writer built his reputation simply on clarity of ex- pression, precision of thought......
Shakespeare's Language
SIL—Miss Emery's letter in last week's issue only rubs salt in my wounds. If 1 had been a don, my equation of 'will' with the sexual organ, and 'spirit' with semen, in......
Brave New World Sia,—the Spectator, April 24, '. . .
anyone of both sexes' What a' strange Brave New World is in- habited by Mr. Randolph Churchill! I. M. H, TOBIAS 106 Hill Farm Caravans, Whipsnade, Dunstable, Beds......
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