Wishful Thinking
Sir: I fear that in printing my letter in response to William Hague (17 May), The Spectator has been guilty of a Freudian slip. I wrote, of course, 'Labour, now the gov-......
Too Kind
Sir: I agree that Edinburgh is possibly the handsomest city in Europe and, yes, I am indeed English, but otherwise I am obliged to correct Paul Johnson's embarrassing encomium......
Count Me Out
Sir: In its leader column of 10 May The Spectator confesses that, as Prime Minister, Blair arrived in Downing Street to a skilful- ly choreographed welcome from the crowds......
A Matter Of Fat
Sir: Your radio correspondent, Michael Vestey, falls into an old, familiar trap in attributing to Cyril Connolly the aphorism, 'Inside every fat man, there's a thin man who is......
Sensibly Dressed
Sir: All of us deplore Gordon Brown's deci- sion not to wear a white tie at the Mansion House dinner, but Taki has chosen a strange example to illustrate his point (High life,......
Sir: Mr Theodoracopulos Asks, 'can You Imagine Winston...
a track suit?' Yes, I can. Sir Winston invented what might have been called the world's first leisure suit had he not worn it to war. It was called a siren suit. A comfortable,......
Sir: How Right You Are To Point To The 'unre-
alistic and mendacious Eurosceptics' who claim that the Conservative election defeat was because the Conservatives were not Eurosceptic enough. No political party in Britain has......
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