A Total Alternative

Sir: Mr Grimond on 27 June has invited additional suggestions for a joint LiberalSDP agenda which will pulverise current party alignments before they pulverise Britain. May I......

Sir: May I Take Jo Grimond At His Word And

respond to his article (27 June)? I think he raises the critical question, i.e. whether `to strike out for a new highly decentralised political economy with drastic changes . .......

Dwarves Defamed

Sir: I must take vigorous exception to Mr von Hoffman's revolting turn of phrase (20 June) when he dealt with the Israeli premier Mr Begin, to wit that the man was a 'homicidal......

Here Was A Caesar . . .

Sir: With very many other readers of the Spectator I mourn the passing of JAC, though I am delighted to read in your non-leader 'Notebook' that reports of his demise are greatly......

Sir: With Real Sorrow I Have Read The News Of

JAC's imminent retirement. Stranded for 24 hours at Heathrow some time during the summer of 1971 I picked up my first Spectator, containing what must have been the first of his......

The Calvo Sotelo Family

Sir: I share Simon Courtauld's concern in the democratic welfare of Spain and I enjoyed reading his article (20 Tune). May I add a postscript: Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo is the......

Holy Joke

Sir: If anyone ever betrayed themselves with their own words it was Richard Ingrams when he attacked the ITV programme Credo for adopting what he describes as an 'anything goes'......