Sir: Ferdinand Mount Is Quite Right To Detect Something In
the air arising from the publicity surrounding the reception of the Duchess of Kent into the Roman Catholic Church. But together with the delicate per- fume of incense, which Mr......
Ladies Last
Sir: Surely the Duchess of Devonshire is wrong and should know better (Diary, 5 February). The man should always precede the woman on both entering and leaving a restaurant. How......
Sex And Seniority
Sir: Regarding Taki's column last week (High life, 5 February), intense negotia- tions — verbal rather than Ugandan provided our list of Britain's sexiest men over 40 and we......
Sir: Surely More Obvious Omissions From The Oxford...
Twentieth - Centu- ry Poetry are Geoffrey Holloway and Eliza- beth Bartlett, both of whom have published more and better poetry than your reviewer, or, for that matter, Ian......
Rhyme And Reason
Sir: Hilary Corke incorrectly states that Peter Levi does not get an entry in the Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry (Books, 12 February). Levi's entry can be found on......
Mistaken Identity
Sir: I read John Plender's article on the forthcoming House of Fraser flotation in this week's issue with interest (`Rubbing shoulders with the Queen', 5 February). He is,......
Sir: Having At First Taken Ferdinand Mount's Article (`no...
in this realm of England', 29 January) for a rather amusing parody of ecclesiastical paranoia, I was disappointed to discover, in this week's Spectator, that it must have been......
Fighting Talk
Sir: There was another reason for Macmil- carried out some air strikes on the Ian's dislike of my godfather Rab Butler (`Centenary of a double-crosser', 5 Febru- ary). George......
Hell On Earth
Sir: Perhaps human beings have room in their minds for one heaven and one hell. The Nazi hell Anne Applebaum discussed (The lesser of two evils', 12 February) reg- istered with......
Sir: In Simon Heifer's Unkind Article There Are Various...
one of which was to accuse Harold Macmillan of being osten- tatious. In fact, he spent little on himself and his clothes were the despair of his fami- ly. When he retired as......
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