Private Eye Story

Sir: Nigel Dempster shows in his piece about Peter McKay's 'book' Inside Private Eye that he is as ill-fitted to review books as McHackey is to write them. I was surprised that......

Bbc Integrity

Sir: Propaganda can be in the mind of the beholder. I have canvassed a widish circle of family and friends, yet not one of them has been able to detect political bias in BBC......

Letters

London's gospel Sir: Your excellent Profile of the Bishop of London (25 October) does not say where he finds a single word of the Lord that justifies his opposing women's......

Suez Schism

Sir: The Suez Affair recalled by Lord Deedes in last week's Spectator occasioned something unique in parliamentary history: the collective resignation of the party whip by a......

Umbrella Man

Sir: John Cooke Moog to rain over us', 11 October) says 'There is no statue of any kind to poor (Jonas) Hanway.' In any event, a monument to him was erected in Westminster Abbey......

Red Vests

Sir: Red vests and red topi-linings may, alas, be now part of history (Letters, 18 October) — but they had had a good run as a prophylactic, even before John Gaddes- ton wrapped......