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......
Market Or Marxism
Sir: Surely Patrick Cosgrave cannot seriously believe that the British electorate hates the Common Market so much that it would be prepared to give the Labour Party a mandate......
Providing For The Future
Sir: In a recent issue (September 22) John Gaselee drew attention to various Ways in which one can ensure an income on retirement. In the many sChemes advertised by insurance......
New History?
Sir: The thesis discussed by Mr Fenlon ( S eptember 29) of a " missing third di Mension, non-Lutheran and untr identine " has been known to s tudents of the Spanish and......
Floating Pound
Sir: Finding much to admire in Mr Gordon Bigham's own excellent contribution to your correspondence columns (October 6), I only wish he had not included the floating pound as a......
Who Pays?
Sir: The doctors (October 6) are of course right to preach against smoking, but for the hard core of us who continue to indulge in this admittedly vicious and nasty habit and......
Tom Paine
Sir: A man may be permitted to have read George Selwyn on the Gordon Riots executions, and Hazlitt on Cobbett and Paine, before encountering these familiar allusions in the......
Capped
Sir: Mr. Al Capp's non-stop petulance and his lame, albeit strident, ad hoc propter hoc rebuttals in defence of his hero are beginning to pall. Take his reference to the......
Sir: Could Mr Larry Adler Tell Your Readers How Many...
T. A. Wainwright Pippins, Hermitage Drive, Twyford. Berkshire......
Dial-a-poem
Sir: You make me sound most ungrateful (Notebook, October 6) about the fee I earned by recording a couple of poems for the Greater London Arts Association's Dial-a-Poem service.......
Repetitious Prayers
Sir: Rev. Angus Hunt's letter (September 29) — 1 do not see any danger myself if, through frequent repetition, one's praying does become somewhat " mechanical " from time to......
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