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Letters Ali Is At It Again

Sir: I was rather surprised to read Antony Lambton's judgment that Philip Ziegler, in his 'official' biography of King Edward VIII, 'has little new relevant information'. Yet......

Viennese Hero

Sir: As the extraordinary woman deter- mined to do a PhD thesis on Jeffrey Bernard I'd like to thank you very much for publishing my appeal to Spectator readers (Letters, 11......

Leaping Lords

Sir: I am writing in general support of Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd's article (`Ladies in their own rights . . .', 18 August) on the inheritance of peerages by women. If the......

A Dictionary Of Cant

VALID. A word that is useful for approving or condoning some proposi- tion or opinion or policy when you are too yellow to judge its truth or false- hood. Nigel Burke......