Letters Bad Manners
Sir: Of course Mr Dawkins' irreverent and atheistic views (Letters, 19 February) are absolutely right, but does he not realise that a gentleman keeps such thoughts to him- self?......
Frozen Assets
Sir: Three weeks ago, during that bout of rather severe weather, I took out a mort- gage on a small one-bedroom igloo. My estate agent had assured me that, given the imminent......
The Editor's Due
Sir: Paul Johnson is quite right about the desirability of editors being thrashed by their victims (And another thing, 26 Febru- ary); I can only assume that it is Mr Major's......
Woman's Work
Sir: Can any of your Roman Catholic corre- spondents explain something for me? Two ministers have publicly explained that they have left the Church of England for the Roman......
Hurd's History
Sir: Since either charity or shortage of space forced Dr Noel Malcolm to curtail his indictment of Douglas Hurd, perhaps I could take up some of the slack relating to his......
Head Kielanowski
Sir: Notwithstanding my boundless admira- tion for all Spectator articles written by Anne Applebaum to date, I feel compelled to correct erroneous details she wrote about......
Get It Right
Sir: Judy Garland did not say, as Sheridan Morley wrote last week (Arts, 12 Febru- ary), 'We are . . . a long way from Kansas City.' The line, perhaps the greatest in liter-......
Man's Work
Sir: There is a new exception to the general rule of ladies first (Letters, 26 February). `I'd definitely support "youthanasia" . . The Eastern Orient Express from Singa- pore......