17 DECEMBER 1994, page 61

Support From Siberia

Sir: Through the kindness of one of your readers I became a subscriber of The Spec- tator last summer. The Spectator is a bril- liant magazine, very clever and inquisitive. It......

Third Act

Sir: Ian McGarry, General Secretary of Equity, complains that my piece on his union was 'littered with inaccuracies'(`No militants like showbiz militants', 26 Novem- ber). It is......

Mother Knows Best

Sir: Having known my son, William, through- out his life, I have never heard him utter an anti-Semitic word, and although he is contro- versial, I find many of the responses to......

Speaking For Germany

Sir: I refer to the article of 3 December, 'Is this what we mean by European Union? dealing with a German court's decision c oncerning the place of residence of two minors.......

Sir: At Winchester College In The 1950s We Knew There

was something wrong with Richard Gott. He sang counter-tenor in the Choir. Simon Courtauld The Close, Pewsey, Wiltshire......

Sir: May I Say, As A Cousin Of Both Roger

Hollis and Richard Gott who has worked 21 years for the Guardian, voted three times for Margaret Thatcher and used to belong to the Conservative Party, that , its acceptance?......