New Year Resolution

Sir: This week the Chinese people celebrate their New Year. It is to be fervently hoped that the Republic of China will make a res- olution for the year ahead. At present there......

Nato In Danger

Sir: As a long-standing Nato supporter, I endorse your opposition to the proposal to extend the alliance eastwards (Leader, 15 February). I am not concerned in the least with......

Grand Old Man

Sir: How can Alan Watkins dare call Churchill 'the old war criminal' (Diary, 15 February)? Perhaps he has been reading too Many 'revisionist historians'. I would refer him to......

Sir: I Too, Like Mr D.p. Dick (letters, 11 January),

have wondered who Alastair Forbes is and why he figures so frequently in your pages. I have concluded that he is an old British expat, fled these many years to Swiss mountain......

Letters Old Favourite

Sir: Having read Paddy Cullinan's letter (15 February), and reread it to check I was not missing some hidden meaning, can I redress his (or her?) utter nonsense and in doing so......

Forbesiana

Sir: Admirers of Kenneth Rose will have bristled at Alastair Forbes's description of him as a gossip columnist (`Rich little poor girl', 15 February). Any gossip columnist with......

Dumpynose Welcomed

Sir: While it is indeed sad that Mass has decided to hang up his Chambers (Letters 1 February) — at least for The Spectator can I say what a delight the puzzles of Dumpynose......