Want Of Decency
Want of decency Rir. ze . If the literary standards of the once Clilised Spectator are exemplified by the efecations of the yahoos who set and conQbuted to your Competition No.......
[sir: What A Splendid Piece Of Victoriana Was...]
Sir: What a splendid piece of Victoriana was Leo Abse's article (1 March) on New Zealand! With his air of lofty disdain, his imperious arrogance, his Olympian judgments, his......
Scots And Toffs
Scots and toffs Sir: Perhaps you will be kind enough to allow one of your predecessors to congratulate you on your amusing and sympathetic sketch of another of your......
Opera 80
Opera 80 Sir: I read with pleasure Rodney Milnes's review, in the Spectator of I March, of Opera 80 at Crewe. Some of the people whom he saw 'struggling to get in' before the......
A Punishment For Scroungers
A punishment for scroungers Sir: In your leading article on social security scroungers ('Cheating the State, 1 March) you write: 'We could do with a punishment which is both......
Finnish Facts
Finnish facts Sir: A pity Peter Ackroyd seems to have based most of his observations on Finland (8 March) mainly on a visit to a disco and some punk rock programme on......
[sir: Mr Abse's Malignant Attack On The New...]
Poms and zombies Sir: Mr Abse's malignant attack on the New Zealanders (1 March) adds little to the solution of that country's racial problems, and merely justifies more fully......
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