Jones and cojones
From The Rt Hon. Lord Tebbit
Sir: I find it hard to express the depth of my disappointment on reading your taurine correspondent's contributions.
The Spectator's fox-hunting correspondent hunts. The Low Life and High Life correspondents live the low and high life respectively. The motoring correspondent drives and his restaurant colleague eats out at restaurants, and so on. So to find that Lord Garel-Jones is but a voyeur devalues The Spectator and no doubt disappoints my fellow readers.
Perhaps Lord Garel-Jones is too old to take up a career as a matador. Indeed, he may be temperamentally unsuited for that role. However, he could surely get into the ring as one of those sportsmen who stab pikes into the back of a great beast of a quality superior to them from the safety of horseback, then wait for better men to make the kill.
After all, bullfighting is not so dangerous a sport as rugby, scuba diving or many others. As a trade or occupation it is safer by far than fishing, and certainly accounts for fewer accidental deaths than driving on the M25 or undergoing surgery.
I wait to hear that The Spectator's taurine correspondent has entered the ring in order to justify his place in its columns. Tebbit
London SW I
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