Comment on comment
Sir: I have recently subscribed to the Spectator, hoping to find reasoned and unemotional critiques of the political scene and other matters of interest. For this reason, I am disturbed by the article 'Bad faith on the right' (11 November). The a'rticle is full of emotional and sweeping attacks on people left, right and centre that I was hoping to avoid by reading your paper. As an example: 'Is the folly of embarking on sanctions against Rhodesia?' etc is fair enough comment, but then goes on that 'from the original folly, all the other delusions, the cant, the moral, er, squalor all inexorably follow'. Why the emotional outburst, even if it were true? Even with MY limited knowledge, I can see that 'moral squalor' does not 'inexorably follow', even if I knew what Ferdinand Mount meant by theAstearmlas. t comment, I note: 'There is bad faith on the right as well as on the left'. Fah. comment, which may well be true. But if s°, why entitle the article 'Bad faith on the right'. Am I letting myself in for the comlunr stance these days in which everything ohr ously wrong on the right is vigorousiY attacked, and everything obviously wrang on the left is glossed over? If so, I'll soon he stopping my subscription.
E. W. Price 12 Albany Road, Seaford
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