Fire-balls Sir: Brian Inglis Does Protest Too Much (24...
He argues that the phenomenon of fire-balls or ball-lightning doesn't have 'a natural explanation', that it is connected with the phenomena both of 'spontaneous c ombustion' and......
Dim Jim.
Sir: The Prime Minister may well be 'boorish and self-important' in not attending the Queen's birthday party (though no doubt the social loss was minimal), but the really......
Sylvia Plath Sir: Peter Ackroyd Thinks Sylvia Plath Has Been
over-rated and I expect he is right, but why must he assume that a girl in her twenties who writes to her mother 'VERY GOOD NEWS: in the mail I just got my first acceptance from......
Reagan Not Out Yet Sir: Really, If The Spectator Is
going to comment with its usual astuteness on American politics, the least it owes its readers is someone with a fair understanding of the subject. Henry Fairlie, having......
Disbelieving Sir: Like Your Contributor, Jeffrey Bernard,...
TV item in Omnibus concerning the composer Alkan rather odd. It was the first of April if you remeMber, and the broad smile on the face of the usually (faintly unnerving)......
Islam And The West Sir: We Should Be Grateful To
Andrew Faulds for warning us that by 1985 Saudi Arabia will hold two-thirds of the world's monetary resources and that 'it has become the Babylon of the millennium'. But,......
St Paul
Sir : I don't think Mr Leo Abse should be allowed to get away with calling St Paul an anti-semite. Any man who, with all the pride of his motive, announced 'I am an Hebrew of......
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