Larkin About
Sir: This Be the Verse (Books, 3 April) They f— you up your biographers, they may not mean to, but they do, they'll play your vices up for laughs and worse comes out in the......
Wide Of The Mark
Sir: Mark Archer tells us in his review of Xanthippic Dialogues in The Spectator (13 March): Roger Scruton, conservative polemicist turned philosophical prankster, makes a duti-......
Premature Decency
Sir: Farces must be played seriously, and even cartoonists should not be permitted to get away with solecisms, especially in The Spectator. The Diary page of 13 March issue......
Life-giving Small Ads
Sir: Instead of reading Mary Killen's col- umn to have one's problems solved, one should concentrate on your Classified page. In just one issue (20 March), I find that nearly......
Boring Bumf
Sir: I started to fill out your readership sur- vey (3 April), but had to abandon it. Can I suggest that its thrust was entirely wrong? 'Your plaice or mine?' Only one question......
Flyer Crashes
Sir: The 'flyer' (in your 27 March issue) concerning the Maastricht Referendum Campaign twice states that 'only those who are on an electoral role should sign this petition',......
Down But Not Out
Sir: Like Jeffrey Bernard (Low life, 20 March) I fell over an uneven paving stone in Chelsea recently. My face hit the pavement first, as I was hurrying. Too late, I discovered......
A Rebel's Cause
Sir: On the teenage reading debate, I wish to respond to both Emma Forrest's (Tot- ing pop tarts, watching pop videos', 20 March) and Sabina Kalyan's (Letters, 3 April) views on......
Long-winded
Sir: The story about the courtier who farted when bowing to Queen Elizabeth I, which Byron Rogers attributed to John Aubrey but has been unable to trace, (Books, 3 April) is in......
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