23 JULY 1983, Page 18

Young Moore

Sir: Rising-young-columnist watchers among Spectator readers who savoured as I did the first-rate 'Political commentary' of 2 July might find it interesting to be told that, in the Navy of yore, there used to be a term for anything 'particularly honest and respectable'. It was called a 'Charley Moore'.

Jeremy Geelan

Editor, Logophile, Got hersgade 39,

Copenhagen, Denmark