Crisis Of The Nation
Sir: In your highly responsible leading article (July 29) on the current crisis of nation, government and party, you suggest, and I am sure rightly, that Ministers may not......
Macpherson On Powell
Sir: Do political commentators like Hugh Macpherson have a collection of standard modules of speeches/articles numbered on tape, so that when an article like his on Enoch Powell......
Fantastic Wit
Sir: Every week I try and catch The Spectator for its fantastic wit in the public library (fifteen pence after all is three bob of anybody's money). But what can an Out' person......
Soviet Dissent
Sir: In an otherwise typically perceptive article on the future of Soviet dissent (July 15),. Tibor Szamuely claims that Andrei Amalrik, one of the most intelligent as well as......
Sir: Mr Edgar P. Young (letters, July 29) Suffers From
the delusion that I was, to quote his words, "in Soviet Russia, in November 1917, fighting with the Red Army." He is even kind enough to commiserate with me on having entered my......
Entering Europe
Sir: I recommend all anti-marketeers to read and circulate Mr D. V. L. Rovve's pro-Market letter (July 29): no better anti-market propaganda exists. He tells us that the Market......
Option To Withdraw
Sir: "The countries in the Common Market should know that in the event of Labour winning a general election, this country will pull out." Your leading article of July 15 makes......
In The Vineyard
Sir: I understand that much of the Labour Party's thinking emanates from Methodist chapels, and I therefore venture to suggest as a proper subject for a sermon the parable of......