Really Great Historian
Sir: Dr Rowse is not only our most eminent historian. He is also one of our most vivid stylists. Like all the really great historians — Gibbon, Carlyle, Macaulay — he is not......
Sir: Since Mr Ingrams (books, 7 June) Is Annoyed At
my claim to have been right about events in 1936, I have taken the trouble to look up in the Spectator volume what I did say at the time: If a real crisis arises, and we are......
Invitation To Naas
Sir: Where else but in the literate pages of the Spectator could we have discovered that we shared a common interest with Lord Gowrie (Summer wine and food, 21 June)? Miss......
Refuseniks
Sir: 'Refuseniks' (Andrew Neil, Letter, 24 May) are Soviet citizens who wish to emigrate, and are persecuted for merely requesting this basic right: they are being refused. The......
Letters Buddget Deficit
Sir: Lord Bruce-Gardyne (The economy, 28 June) is, of course, welcome to his choice of tiger-hunting companions. I my- self would hesitate before embarking on any sort of......
No Saint
Sir: I am not St Augustine. I did not intend last week (`God versus W.B. Yeats') to reinvent the City of God and put it down, of all places, in Dublin. I meant to refer to `the......
Bar Fees
Sir: Although Auberon Waugh's hard-won knowledge of law of libel is impressive (Another voice, 28 June), the disappointed litigant might do better to rely on a successful bid......
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