Our Story
Sir: Your political editor writes (‘Peter v . George is the key battle’, 11 October) that Peter Mandelson’s conversation on Corfu where he ‘dripped pure poison’ about Gordon......
Institutional Nonsense
Sir: Charles Moore warns against the danger that a new inquiry into police racism by the Metropolitan Police Authority might ‘feed the monster’ of racist lobbying (The......
Intervention In Oman
Sir: The Malayan counter-insurgency campaign was not alone in its success (High life, 11 October). In Oman, in the 1970s, a handful of British officers masterminded and led a......
Stuff The Wife
Sir: Thurber himself (And another thing, 11 October) commented on his cartoon ‘This is the present Mrs Harris. That’s my first wife up there’ — a naked woman on all fours on top......
New Labour, No Publisher
Sir: Denis MacShane (Diary, 13 October) asks why someone doesn’t produce a novel on the Blair–Brown years. Five years ago I penned a pastiche which I thought might come well......
Cheques And Balances
Sir: In the Spectator’s Notes (13 October) we learn how to write a cheque, including ‘the Geoffrey Wheatcroft technique of sending it promptly but omitting the date’. I have......
A Minor Error
Sir: Dot Wordsworth (Mind your language, 11 October) wrote Lord Kitchener off too soon. It might have been he who headed the force that relieved Khartoum from the Mahdi’s siege,......
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