Grubby Behaviour
Sir: After the 1974 general election The Spectator ran an article entitled 'The squalid squatter at Number Ten' in which Edward Heath was condemned for trying to hold on to......
Sorry, Wrong Man
Sir: What tricks the memory can play. Paul Foot, in his review of Thatcher's Gold (Books, 24 June) says that in early 1981 he telephoned Downing Street and spoke to `the press......
Country Life
Sir: When any phrase or saying leaps to prominence it is always instructive to look at its derivation and meaning. `Stalking horse' now features in all the papers, rather than......
Bosnian Star Trek
Sir: Although Mr P.R. Watkins vaguely dis- agrees (Letters, 24 June) with my article on British and UN attitudes to Bosnia, he does not contest the accuracy of a single factual......
Sir: It Was Pointed Out In The Spectator And Only
in The Spectator — that John Major's driving force was vanity. Thank you for this cipher which has provid- ed all anyone need ever know about this com- plex man and his actions......
Voice Of Youth
Sir: Taki ridicules `a sweet young thing' who thinks that Shakespeare wrote about Henry VIII. My edition of Shakespeare's works includes The Famous History of the Life of King......
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