Demonstrators For Cnd
Sir: No single spectator could produce a satisfactory report of a demonstration as large as the one organised by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament on 25 October, but I must......
The Lights Of Calais
Sir: Alexander Chancellor should come down off his Kentish mountain and make a trip to the Calais he maligns (Notebook, 31 October). Were he a yachtsman, he would find there a......
Bold In War
Sir: Murray Sayle misattributes, as well as perpetrating the common misquotation of, the celebrated phrase 'de l'audace, et encore de l'audace, et toujours de l'audace' (24......
The Sodpal Factor
Sir: It is distressing that an entire issue of the Spectator should have been allowed to pass without due tribute to Geoffrey Wheatcroft's brilliant acronym, SODPAL, for the......
Lilliburlero
Sir: It would be pleasant to be able to mention Ireland in your paper, or any other, without attracting a nonsensical reply. To refute my suggestion that `Lilliburlero', as the......
Sir: To Shed Further Light On The Origins Of The
tune' Lilliburlero', Lord Macaulay in his Vol. 2 of The History of England refers in . a footnote thus: 'The song of Lilliburlero among the State Poems. In Percy's Relics the......
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