Vj Day
Sir: Am I right in thinning the British press ignored the anniversary of VJ Day last week? A day when millions regained their life and freedom? Surely this anniversary deserves......
A Don At War
Sir: Who is John Wells? (page 243 of your 16 August issue). I am agog to know how he learned what the dons who taught us said about Sir David Hunt and myself. At least he has......
Common Prayer
Sir: In your issue of 16 August, Mr J. W. M. Thompson voices for me all the frustration people like me feel at the 'modernisation' of the Book of Common Prayer. No doubt, Mr......
Ayant Un Merveilleux Temps
AFTERTHOUGHT JOHN WELLS Mon cher Theophile—Figure to yourself if it pleases you our ecstasy to be spending at last our holidays in this England we have yearned for since our......
Spare The Toasting Fork .
Sir: I liked Strix's comments in 'Spectator's Notebook' (2 August) on fagging at Eton. When I was a fag there my fagmaster was up to a beak who set, as an extra work, the com-......
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