29 APRIL 1978, page 18

Sir: Lord Goodman Suggests That Auberon Waugh's...

conversation five or six years old describing an incident fifteen years before that' may be unreliable: on the contrary. The conversation took place over lunch in Soho on 3 May,......

Back Ian Smith

Sir: I read Stephen Glover's piece 'Chameleons in Rhodesia' (15 April) with considerable interest and it seems clear to me that the Western Powers' failure to support the......

The Russian Prisoners

Sir: Ms Gainham's rambling letter (15 April) would be charming in its illogicality if it were not so morally debased. In joining the ranks of those whose attacks on Stalin are......

The Greatest?

Sir: In the Spectator of 1 April you devoted no less than three articles to the season's international rugby scene. In none of them was there any mention of Andy Irvine, an......

Ritual Slaughter

Sir: In your editorial of 1 April you express misgivings over the method of slaughtering livestock exported to France. Such concern is praiseworthy, but you are guilty of......

Princess Margaret

Sir: You can write as many sycophantic, mealy-mouthed leader columns as you like, but your correspondent, Mr Alan Walsh, IS right. The majority of people in this countrY have......

Sir: Bias And Exaggeration Are Of Course The Stock In

trade of historians, even of such brilliant and admirable ones as Oxford's Regius Professor. But to call my recent review of Peter Townsend's Time and Chance, which dealt......

Less Greek

Sir: Me poor Greek ignorant. You big English egghead. You pliss say to learned Swiss Alastair Forbes no spend so much time thinking of royals but more time learning write short......