Sir: I Read The Reverend Mullen's Lament For The Church
of England with every sym- pathy. If, as he says, it has become in- distinguishable from Rome, it is because we Roman Catholics have suffered exactly the same ghastly......
Sir: Nicholas Von Hoffman Is Unnecessarily Hard On Robert...
(29 January), who is not 'perhaps the least gifted American poetaster to creep into the more popular an- thologies'. He is, of course, perhaps the least gifted Scottish......
It Passeth All Understanding
Sir: While respecting the Church of England's pursuit of its lost sheep, it seems to me that the Alternative Service Book is not just an aesthetic disaster but a blurring of......
Letters
Stray sheep Sir: If your editorial (5 February) is right, the British public is happier to spend £1,860 million in 1983-86 to defend the indefensi- ble — the Falklands — rather......
West Indian Attitudes
Sir: Like other regular readers of the Spec- tator, I must occasionally endure opinions expressed therein with which I disagree, but when these occasions are based on......
Poor Service
Sir: Your correspondent Nicholas von Hoffman commits the routine American er- ror of believing (29 January) that all per- sons born between the Rio Grande and the North Pole are......