Too Cosy With The Kgb
Sir: Denis MacShane (‘Welcome to the Vlad and Dave show’, 12 January) is right to imply that the attitude of the Conservative party to the Russian KGB state is reminiscent of......
Sir: Denis Macshane’s Insightful Revelations Of British...
diplomats cosying up to each other in the Council of Europe stirred nostalgic memories of over half a century ago. At a Labour party parliamentary dinner for visiting Soviet......
The Problem With Choice
Sir: I agree with Charles Moore that the British are simply not healthier and better treated by the NHS than patients in neighbouring countries (The Spectator’s Notes, 12......
The Speed Of Time
Sir: In response to Toby Young’s search for an explanation as to why time speeds up as we get older (Status anxiety, 5 January), I have my own (non-scientific) theory. When I......
Tudors: Not Very Welsh
Sir: Your correspondent Mr Williams objects to my description of Henry VIII as the ‘English Stalin’ on the grounds that the Tudor dynasty was Welsh (Letters, 5 January). It is......
Sad Modernist Notion
Sir: It is rather sad to see Admiral Liardet trotting out those old ‘modernist’ notions that I thought had been put to rest some time ago (Letters, 12 January). I leave aside......
Desert Island Diss
Sir: Kate Chisholm comments that Kirsty Young has yet to breathe new life into Desert Island Discs (Radio, 12 January). Far from resuscitating the programme, I fear that Kirsty......
Previous page
