Letters

Opiates and the people Sir: What a sheltered life, my noticeably greying but surely still quite young friend Geoffrey Wheatcroft (Letters, 22 Decem- ber) seems to lead, 'twixt......

Anglo-saxon Simplicity

Sir: As a Northamptonian born and bred, now dragging out my days in bitter exile among the snarling tradesmen, third-world boutiquiers and prancing poseurs of the Smoke, I must......

Spiro

Sir: Is Geoffrey Wheatcroft, like Winston Smith, trying to re-write history (Christmas Quiz, 22 December)? Richard Nixon's running mate in 1972 was not Gerald Ford but Spiro T.......

Footnote On Watkins

Sir: Mr Alan Watkins is undoubtedly one of the greatest journalists (with the possi- ble exceptions of yourself, Sir, and Mr St Loe Strachey) ever to write for the Specta- tor,......

Correct Style

Sir: Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Hor- rocks KCB, KBE, DSO, MC, after a distinguished record in two world wars, became, while Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, a much admired......

Notts Communists

Sir: I must be one of the 'paternalistic employers' — Ferdinand Mount in his re- view of Scargill and the Miners (Books, 5 January) — having been successively Secret- ary,......