On Our Present Discontents
Those who can, like Smedley, do, Those who can't, like Arnold, teach; What other nation is there who , Can manage to discourage each? E. M. Behrens 64 Coleman Street, London EC2......
On The Cheap
Sir: As a national newspaper employee I am particularly grateful to you for prtating a regular weekly article on the press, especially as, since the extinction of our former......
Britain And Biafra
Sir: Many people would like to help Biafra . .4 survive. So far they have only been able to do it by contributing to charities such as Oxfam. There is an even more important......
Spectator's Notebook
Sir : In the first three paragraphs of Nigel Law- son's 'Spectator's notebook' of 7 March he mentions 'England' in contexts where this is inaccurate. Such solecisms have......
The Great Soames Saga
Sir: In 'Spectator's notebook' (28 February) J. W. M. Thompson quotes as a maxim 'never apologise, never explain.' The Kipling version of that (and what he is said to have......
Aubrey's Lights
Sir : I am sorry to harp on a vulture, but Luciana Cianci's defence of Freud (Letters, 7 March) will not quite do. Nibbio, specifically, means kite. It may be generically used......
Family Album
Sir: Either your reviewer Mr Roy Strong, or the author of The Stanhopes of Chevening, Mr Aubrey Newman, is at fault (28 February). Mention is made of 'two step-brothers' of Lady......
In Defence Of Concorde
Sir: I do not believe I am alone in thinking that never in the field of news has a subject been so much covered for so long for the interest of so few—as the Concorde. When......
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