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Letters

Negritude Sir: In his effort to discredit Jonas Savimbi, the leader of the Angolan 'Unita' Party, Richard Dowden (Letters, 24 September) suggested a bad connotation to......

Omitious

Sir: Olivia O'Leary's article on the Irish abortion referendum (17 September) was remarkable for its omissions. It omitted the fact that the European Parliament resolved to......

Sir: Richard Dowden Of The Times Wonders (17 September) How

anyone can get from Scotland to Angola. Scots are used to this kind of metropolitan parochialism, and I do not need to teach Spectator readers about the long Scottish tradition......

Sprouting

Sir: 'There is nothing necessarily wrong with beards,' says Charles Moore ( 24 September), but 'men with beards In modern England are trying to saY something'. What nonsense! Of......

Last Week We Published A Letter By Mr Michael Rubenstein

criticising the editor of the Literary Review. We have been asked to make clear that the solicitor Michael Rubinstein, who advises the Literary Review on legal matters, was not......