Baffled
Sir: I have read Xan Smiley's piece on the Rhodesian atrocities (9 July) more than once, and still don't know what he is meaning to convey. He says 'the African concept of......
Horse Sense
Sir: Richard Ingrams is that very rare phenomenon, someone who looks at (and writes about) television without astigmatic vision. At last (to cite the latest example) one has had......
First Election In 1974
Sir: Accuracy! George Gale is so wrong (The realistic Unions, 16 July). The Wilberforce Tribunal (not `committee') sat in February 1972, not 1974, towards the end Of the seven......
Sexuality
Sir: Your correspondent Dr J. Stanford Aston (Letters, 16 July) has misunderstood me. Of course there is a need to discuss in a biography the nature of a man's sexuality in......
Exit Heath And Wilson?
Sir: It is curious to have, in the same issue of the Spectator (16 July), your contribut'or John Grigg advocating a statutory incomes policy, and your contributor George Gale......
Happy Families
Sir: 'All happy families are more or less dissimilar; all unhappy ones are more or less alike.' So Vladimir Nabokov begins his novel Ada, claiming to quote the opening sentence,......
Waugh Rebuked
Sir: On reading your issue of 16 July, I discovered that one of your contributors was a person called Waugh. I gather that this person is descended from an eminent author of......
Mrs Maybrick
Sir: In his excellent review of The Poisoned Life of Mrs Maybrick (16 July) Mr Patrick Cosgrave comments: `the book is topped off with a skilful study of the consequences of the......
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