Oyster Roister

Sir: Patrick Forman (Letters, 27 August) need not look to a conspiracy by the oyster factors of Billingsgate to explain the dearth of cheap gigass (Pacific) oysters. In 1974,......

Parker Dukakis

Sir: Michael Dukakis doesn't have a dis- proportionately large head (`The resistible charms of the bodies politic', 20 August). The problem is that he has the physique of a......

Burlington Arcadia

Sir: I agree with Paul Johnson (The press, 25 June) that 'routine coverage of painting arouses little interest'. (The same could, however, be said of routine coverage of......

Open Caste

Sir: Nirad C. Chaudhuri (`The "Glorious" Revolution that never was', 16 July) is right to stress the importance of the 'great' historians of the past. They are often ignored by......

Running Rings

Sir: It is one thing for Rodney Milnes (Arts, 27 August) to be particularly against a Wagner production at Bayreuth, but then to declare that he will never go to the place again......

The Spectator

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