Who The F— Are You?
Sir: Dot Wordsworth opines in her column (Mind your language, 6 December) that ‘no one has ever been called C*** or F***.’ However, she states that she would welcome evidence to......
Fight By Law, Not War
Sir: Spending the last weeks in Geneva (which is not that city’s name in any of the languages of Switzerland) I have been untroubled by mumbled Mumbais. Bombay is there still......
No Free Lunch
Sir: Charles Moore will not pay the television licence fee (The Spectator’s Notes, November 29) but is more than happy to have lunch with the Director-General in the DG’s......
Really Thick
Sir: The crime perpetrated by Karen Matthews and Michael Donovan, though utterly despicable, must be among the most ill conceived and poorly executed in history, even more......
Wrong About Shakespeare
Sir: In Lloyd Evans’s review of Soul of the Age by Jonathan Bate (Arts, 1 November) he declares that ‘all dons’ are potentially bores because they ‘know too much about too......
Carols By Candlelight
Sir: I have recalled Charles Moore’s horror that his church was to be floodlit (The Spectator’s Notes, 13 September). How terribly sad that will be for all concerned, and......
Where Is Baby Jesus?
Sir: I would like to ask Spectator readers for their help — has anyone seen a nativity scene in London this Christmas? I don’t doubt that there are several in the country, but......
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