Verb. Sap.
Sir: The reaction of my three-year-old daughter to the piece of card inside your magazine upon which a caricature of Au- beron Waugh urges us to subscribe, is one which may well......
Research And Abortion
Sir: In your leader (28 October) you say that the Government 'has decided to make available in its forthcoming Bill on embryo research a space for an amendment' to the Abortion......
Canadian Immigration
Sir: While Andrew Kenny (`Right of pas- sage', 30 September) is entitled to his view that the cause of humanity would be well served should industrial countries drop their......
Kissing
Sir: Auberon Waugh's and Charles Glass's reflections on the kissing of strangers (14 and 21 October) reminded me of a produc- tive encounter one midsummer evening in 1960. Out......
Quick Returns
Sir: Only one thing wrong with this week's Spectator — six words — 'Wallace Arnold will return next week.' C. A. Bosset Penrhoel, Llangynedr, Powys......
Coram's Children
Sir: I accidentally omitted one sentence from my piece on Captain Thomas Coram CA foundling father to our children', 21 October). The gist of it was that (as in the present......
A Dictionary Of Cant
FAILURE OF COMMUNICATION. When committees are set up after disas- ters and fiascos for the non apportioning of blame, failure of com- munication is a device, like a spatula, for......
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