Postcodes
Sir: Geoffrey Wheatcroft rightly complains of the stupefying complication of the postcodes. I wonder, however, whether it is really necessary to use the shift key when tYPing......
Euromoney
Sir: What, apropos the proposed European Monetary System (EMS), is a 'useful union, i to Nicholas Davenport (28 October) s to F erdinand Mount, in the same issue, a sinister'......
Lgnazio Silone
Sir: When Silone died I was in Italy and read many tributes to him by eminent Italian writers and critics — but none so subtle and impinging as Michael Foot ' s masterly......
Szasz And Suicide
Sir: Like Auberon Waugh, I am not a disciple of Thomas Szasz. Unlike Mr Waugh, however, I confine my jokes to things I understand, if only because the success of jokes about......
Dogma
Sir: Much as I usually look forward to read ing the Spectator, I shall consider doing without it if you continue to print Geoffrey Wheatcroft ' s unpleasant rigmaroles about......
Spare The Springs
Sir: Richard West ' s enjoyable account (21 October) of stinginess over the bath - water in a Pontefract boarding - house is a remin der of a favourite story of the late Sir......
Critic Criticised
Sir: It is all very well for Richard lngrams to complain about the sloppy attention to documented historical detail in some tele vision productions, but his criticism would be a......
Colin Macinnes
Sir: I have been asked by the literary executors of the late Colin MacInnes to write his biography, and I wonder if I might, through your columns, appeal to anyone who knew him......
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