Gossipy Spectator
Sir: I doubt if I am the only reader whose delight in the new sFEcrarna was marred by the intrusion of two nauseating examples (Notebook : 31 October) of the one really use- less and disgraceful type of modern journalism—gossip.
There is something very nasty about public reporting of people's dinner-party behaviour or their mis- fired practical jokes; it is an invasion of privacy, hurtful to the people concerned and of no con- ceivable interest to readers of the SPECTATOR. And the emetic English, not to mention the sycophantic style, matches the subject-matter- ' . . . the duplex luxury of Harold and Diane Lever, he of the late Cabinet'! (Pure name-dropping. incidentally, since the Levers had nothing at all to do with the story.)
I beg you, Mr Editor, to dis- cipline the writer in question and to reject all similar contributions.
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