Defending Dalrymple
Sir: D. L. Crosby (Letters, 4 June) provides us with a useful summary of Theodore Dal- rymple's views, and one to which many of us working in the NHS would be happy to put our......
Digby's New Friend
Sir: Pigs might fly, and the moon be proved to be green cheese before I could have found myself in agreement with Digby Anderson, or so I thought. Now he has written so......
Farmed Out
Sir: To this farmer The Spectator is a 'recre- ational' magazine. Such a judgment must partly depend on one's perspective. Even so, Dominic Lawson's classification of Farmer's......
Decision Explained
Sir: Your reason for assigning the review of Yitzchak Shamir's autobiography to James Buchan, was quite obviously not to publish a scholarly treatise on the contents of the book......
Flower-pot Men
Sir: If Mr Blair of the Labour Party were to obtain ultimate success as a result of the mis- sion upon which he has just embarked, there is a possibility that Great Britain......
White Notes
Sir: How ridiculous of CSH in his Portrait of the Week (11 June) to write that the trumpeter Red Rodney was unusual in the jazz profession in being white. Not only have there......
Forever Seven
Sir: It is appropriate that ex-Masons should describe former brothers as 'selfish, stupid, prejudiced and ruthless' (`Swearing alle- giance to Widow Twanky', 14 May), since the......
Wheelbarrow Art
Sir: If I might be allowed as a layman to intrude into the spirited modernist visual arts debate currently being fought out in your columns (Letters, 28 May) — my own Damascene......
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