Adding Up
Sir: `Can Reagan add up? inquires your cover (31 October). `Can The Spectator add up?' I inquire. On page 5 of the same issue you describe an increase in value from £180 million......
Provengale Fantasy
Sir: In your issue of 5 September, under the rubric `Food', you give the most astounding recipe for Daube de boeuf a la provencale'. Call it `Daube fantaisie', or Dauble......
Safety Net
Sir: I find Alexandra Artley's impassioned plea (`Household words, government sums', 7 November) strangely argued. I was brought up to believe that adults, by taking the......
Taxing Question
Sir: Assuming that it was not merely rhetorical, may I proffer an answer to your question (Tot and kettle', 7 November) about the sympathy felt for Lester Piggott? First he is a......
Wit And Beauty
Sir: I can only hope that your contributor Andrei Navrozov writes better in Russian than in English. I nearly nodded off twice reading his review of Lenin: The Novel (14......
Intellectual Corpses
Sir: Wendy Cope (Television, 21 Novem- ber) seems to think it acceptable to review and condemn a programme — Thinking Aloud — without having taken the trouble to see it. I can......
Micawbernomics
Sir: Dickens would be amused to find that you and your contributor James Buchan (`The US in hock', 7 November) now regard `Micawber-like' as a term of praise for the managing of......
The Last Laugh
Sir: I would like to put the record straight about hyenas, accused by Alice Thomas Ellis of eating `all the bits of dead things that lions leave' (Home life, 7 November). In......
Unusual Diet
Sir: First we have Digby Anderson suggest- ing we cook and eat our children's favourite animal (19 September); next (I read the Spectator backwards) Alice Tho- mas Ellis......
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