Ageing Lawyers

Sir: W. Diment (30 December) asserts that there should be a compulsory retirement age for lawyers " sixty-five (or at least seventy)." So far as Her Majesty's judges are......

Manhunt

Sir: Not since the Daily Express told the world ten years ago what Mr Profumo's butler had for breakfast have I been gripped with such deliciously melancholic ecstasy as when......

Englishman's Word

Sir, I hasten to agree with A. G. Bomford in Australia (Letters, November 18) by saying that, when I placed an order with a bookseller who does not know me, it Is reasonable for......

Critics

Sir: Mr Will Waspe in your issue of December 23, says that it is rumoured that I have a play in some bottom drawer waiting to be' produced. Since false rumours tend to breed......

Sir: May I Be Permitted The Hospitality Of Your Columns

to express my thanks to the many readers of The Spectator. — some unknown to me, but too numerous to thank individually — who took the trouble at this busy season to write,......

Universal

Sir: This has reference to the last paragraph of Peter Quince's article on country life in England, appearing in your issue of November 25. There your columnist refers to the......

Juliette's Weekly Frolic

"Fog has closed the M4 at junction 13," trilled Radio 1 Traffic News at regular intervals last Saturday morning. Unfortunately they neglected to pinpoint the precise whereabouts......