Disgruntled
Sir: I understand that the circulation of The Spectator is still falling* and if this is so I am not surprised. I have just been reading the issue, dated October 6, and find the seine endless bleating against the Common Market and the Government. At the end of the last paragraph of the leading article entitled, " Labour's Great Chance," you appear to advocate .0 vote for Labour in the next election,. in spite of the welter of almost incredible nonsense churned out at the party' conference this week. You are a master of the sweeping and unfounded allegation, there is a kind of crazy intensity in your endless dubious opinions. Your main comPeti" tor in the weekly field which I have also read every week for many years in an attempt to understand the "other side," is very much superior in its general tone and in the standard of writing. There is not much Pagree with in the Neu. Statesman as a rule, but it has an infinitely more responsible Character than your journal displays, and has an air of authority which The Spectator singularly lacks, but has not always lacked.
As to specifically irresponsible sta tements, I refer you to my letter of June 15 which gives a prime example. I really cannot be bothered to refute in detail the profusion of wild and woolly wailings in the issue under review and in issues for many months past. I shall be unable to subscribe to your Journal until your editorship come to a
timely end, which should not take long, but shall continue to read the NeW Statesman, with irritation frequently, but also with approval of that paper's apparent honesty of purPose.
Nicholas Twells
9 Connaught Mews, Hyde Park. London W2.
" It is not; it is rising.—Editor, The Spectator.
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