29 NOVEMBER 1997, page 34

Not Just William

Sir: D.A. Brunton's equation of the Bloody Assizes with the Glencoe massacre is typi- cal of neo-Jacobite impudence (Letters, 22 November). The former were conducted on the......

Letters Down With Public School

Sir: It was startling to hear Douglas Hurd, when presenting The Search for Peace on BBC 2, lapse from political correctness by saying of Anthony Eden, 'An Etonian, and none the......

Notes From Smaller Islands

Sir: Mark Steyn's allegation (`The appeal Louise lost', 15 November) that 'you Brits have become emotionally incontinent' may well be right. But the reason for it is the......

A Lot Of Bottle

Sir: Toby Young (`First smokers, now drinkers', 15 November) would have rel- ished being present at the bar in the Main Press Center in Atlanta at the start of the Olympic......

Fair Comment

Sir: In The Spectator of 1 November, I wrote that Robert Jackson had 'made an extraordinary intervention' in the Com- mons in inviting Gordon Brown to repudi- ate his pledge on......

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