St Peter's
Sir: Christopher Booker has written (5 March)with passion on what he considers to be the startlingcollapse of the modern move ment in all the arts, but his lamentable excursion......
The Pm's Secretary
Sir: The scene was 10 Downing Street. A visitor had arrived. He was greeted by a youngish lady. 'She nodded twice, smiling with a contented, contemplative expression, as though......
The Pophams
Sir: In his account of the legend of the Littlecote Ghost (One just man) on 5 March, Auberon Waugh said no one had ever suggested that Sir John Popham 'might be troubled in his......
Stunned By Bbc Sir: I Have Noticed For Some Time
now that BBC play directors have become increasingly prone to the modern compulsion to add to their dramas a sprinkling of four-letter words as a sort of condiment and, for......
Mr David Ennals
Sir: It does not commend the Spectator to those who have for many years respected its contributions to read Patrick Cosgrave's 'Suffering and little children' article in your......
Critical Confusion? Sir: In Criticising A New Novel By...
Innes the reviewer Nick Totton disparage s surely for quite wrong reasons the work of Rider Haggard with whom he compare s Innes. He writes (19 February) that the Africa of......
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