Scoop of the century
Sir: I have been reading with great interest in recent months your coverage of this chap Gordon, who appears to have gone out to govern the Sudan all on his own without any support except for a few thousand Egyptians (see p.12).
This is stirring stuff. But why is the whole episode being ignored by the rest of the media? Is there a conspiracy not to embarrass the Government for having left poor Gordon in the lurch for so long? And why is your own reporting so patchy and irregular, confined, as it is, to a feature item the subject of which is from week to week entirely unpredictable? Now that a rescue expedition appears at last to have been decided on (Spectator, 8 September 1984), may we not have more and greater coverage of this affair; perhaps a separate column each week? After all, I cannot be the only one of your readers amongst whose principal reasons for buying the Spectator these days is a burning desire to learn General Gordon's ultimate fate.
Daniel Moylan
2 Trinity Close, The Pavement, London SW4
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