No Call For A Referendum

Sir: Your leading article overstates the case for a referendum in the UK (15 September). It would be interesting to know how many newspapers thought there should be a referendum......

Fairlie Interesting

Sir: In your introduction to Peter Oborne's article 'The Establishment is dead,' (15 September) you say that `the term "Establishment" was coined in The Spectator', and you......

General Disaster

Sir: In his review of General Jackson's book Soldier (Books, 15 September), Andro Linklater ends with an unintended insight: `that he has left his mark on the army for years to......

Model Apostle

Sir: Philip Hensher is quite right to correct Peter Ackroyd's bizarre suggestion that the apostles in Zoffany's 'Last Supper' were modelled on Thames fishermen (Books, 8......

Bad Associations

Sir: Rod Liddle's rugby piece (8 September) was bad-tempered, foul-mouthed and oikish. The poor fellow seems to have a monstrous chip on his shoulder. There's probably just as......

Tony's Tags

Sir: I don't know about the legal circles in which Clarissa Dickson Wright used to move (8 September), but in the diplomatic service, when I used to attend receptions at British......