Sir: I See That Alan Clark Thinks That His Writing
the Diary will cause the Spectator's circulation to drop. He is right. Sidney Vines 1 Willow Close Laverstock Salisbury......
Sir: I Hesitate To Take Issue With So Felici- Tous
a diarist as Alan Clark, but isn't the Nobel Prize for Literature awarded for the body of an author's work rather than for a single book? The grand old men of Stockholm may have......
Brushing Up On Europe
Sir: Andrew Marr takes me to task for tar- ring his confusion between sovereignty and power with a Hitlerite brush, and repeats his assertion that the nature of modern warfare,......
A Fast Ferry To Come Sir: Your Reader Mr Fyffe's
criticism of the Newhaven-Dieppe ferry service under the former French Railways (SNCF) and British Rail partnership sounds familiar but from a different era (Letters, 4......
Jeff's Not A Cad, Is He?
Sir: Why should we be called cads? Sir Robert Stephens is certainly not the first man to kiss and tell and good luck to him. Anyway, he's not a cad. I can't think of a bigger......
Emotive Music
Sir: Alexander Waugh cannot deny music any inherent emotional content, as Michael Kimmins correctly points out (Letters, 4 November). The point is that music is so emotive. The......
Social Porkies
Sir: It took me a while, but I finally per- ceived the leitmotiv in Mary Killen's col- umn. It is that the solution to a difficult social prospect is, almost without exception,......
Clark's Danger
Sir: How comely it is and how reviving to discover Alan Clark again in your columns. His limpid prose and unveiled insults soothe and threaten by turns. His early reappearance......
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