Nelson And Nelson
Sir: Jonathan Manthorpe (Letters, 8 July) rules out two possible candidates for the vacant equestrian plinth in Trafalgar Square on the ground of their non-horse- manship:......
Covent Garden F.c.
Sir: Eight months into its first ten years, no one would claim the National Lottery is perfect, but it does seem a bit odd to attack it, as you did ('Let them eat cake', 8......
Fact Checker
Sir: You argue that John Major became Prime Minister because he was not Neil Kinnock ('We deserve better', 1 July). In 1990? You have left uncorrected the statement in a......
Ripe Riposte
Sir: Why, in praising British Cheese, does Martin Vander Weyer find it necessary to denigrate the cheese production of France ('Cheese: British is best' 1 July)? The devel-......
Sir: My 86-year-old Aunt (who Doesn't Read The Spectator)...
to me yesterday, 'How disgusting this business is about Hugh Grant. Men have always popped out for a bit of sex. Why can't the press behave prop- erly and leave him alone?' Her......
Blown Out Of Proportion
Sir: I am alarmed by the moral confusion raging in the land of my birth concerning the Hugh Grant fellatio scandal. This practice has no place in a marriage between decent......
Noses Up
Sir: Thank God! John Major has won, the snobs and zealots have lost. The air feels fresher already. M.J. Dowsett 7 Lambs Close, Kidlington, Oxon......
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