Also.. .
Sir: On 4 November you invited critics to follow Mr Edward Pearce and show some enmity to The Spectator, including its new editor.
Does that apply to all readers? If so, how about its old Taki?
This not quite playful raconteur half pre- tends to be a fascist (or would that be a quarter?) in order to annoy the Left. But he also provokes some different persons: the war generation, who fought against the Axis, and lost friends in that conflict.
There are quite a few of us still tiresome- ly about. And in our woodenly pedantic way, we are still unable to respond to com- mendations of Mussolini, playful or other- wise, to tasteless humour about the fate of Resistance leaders like Jean Moulin; and least of all, to mendacious chop-logic in defence of Japanese atrocities. All these have been offered in your pages by your columnists recently. This idle man stands in need of the voice of a Guards sergeant-major, in his ear. Of course that was never a possibility, so a polite letter must suffice.
M M. Carlin
Rectory House, Redstone, Shropshire
Previous page
