A Child’s Purpose
Sir: Rachel Johnson (‘When did you last see your children?’, 14 June) paints a thoroughly depressing picture of modern parenting. I urge anyone contemplating breeding to bear in......
Casting Aspersions On Poles
Sir: It was with deep disappointment that I read Rachel Johnson’s article. The illustration accompanying it depicts a gaunt, shabbily dressed young woman in a T-shirt with......
Ulster Didn’t Fight For Right
Sir: For 30 years the Protestant people and culture of Ulster sought British help as the IRA tried to destroy them both. For 30 years mainland Britain defended, subsidised,......
Pushkin Comes To Shove
Sir: Deborah Ross may not have heard of Bodrov’s Prisoner of the Mountains (Arts, 7 June) but she should not try to implicate the rest of us in her ignorance. It is a version of......
The Last Straw
Sir: I’ve always considered that The Spectator ’s otherwise peerless dissertations are let down by a bewildering ignorance of the countryside, but hitherto thought that this was......
Roll On The Glorious Future
Sir: As a teacher in a secondary school for the last 18 years, my response to the article by Mr Balls about the government’s educational achievements (‘No child left behind’, 14......