The Right Judge

Sir: May I correct a mistake in my letter of 26 July? It was, of course, Lord Donald- son, not Lord Denning, who heard the Spycatcher case in the Court of Appeal in January......

Small Ad

Sir: Nigella Lawson doubts that the current ability to get a table at the Caprice without booking reflects the depth of the recession (Restaurant, 22 June). Maybe; but a really......

Now Booking

Sir: We read with interest Mr De'Ath's account of his time in Oxford, in particular at Clark's House Bail Hostel. CAt the bail hostel'), 3 August 1991.) We have been......

Rock Solid

Sir: I am wondering whether Simon Cour- tauld really knows Spain or whether he has wanted to present us with a well written article to make a political point. If he has......

Expert Account

Sir: Your columnist Taki, it seems, has just heard of Prof Martin Bernal's Black Athe- na, which was published in 1987. Bernal was for a long time a Fellow of King's, Cambridge,......

Swiss Rollback

Sir: Caroline Sinclair's piece on Switzer- land is apt to give imbalance a bad name. While I do not for a moment doubt the authenticity of her private examples — they have the......

Paddy Ashdown Literacy Prize

READERS were invited to indicate the grammatical errors in a short letter from the leader of the Liberal Democrats (The Spectator, 22 June). We received a bulging bag of......