Up The Pole

Sir: Please inform Mr Simon Courtauld (Notebook 19 March), that some papers and the BBC refer to the Union Flag because that is its name. The term Union Jack is only correctly......

One Small Dam

Sir: I have just read the article 'Island in the rain' by James Hughes-Onslow (1 January). It is inconceivable that our South-West, in its totally wilderness state, could......

Letters

Budget bonus Sir: Why is it that press coverage of impor- tant events is distorted so often by the pessimistic editorial desire to report only bad news, so that items of......

Birthday Party

Sir: Why, when it has men like Ingrams, Booker, and the Callas-loving' Jeffrey Ber- nard available to it, does the Spectator per- sist in inviting improbable people to write......

Greenham Commentary

Sir: Paul Johnson should really come out in the open and give us all a coherent sum- mary of his views instead of favouring us with choleric outbursts on isolated minor issues......

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