True Heir
Sir: Lord Williams of Elvel asks 'Why was Mitterrand, that most French of French- men, such a Eurofanatic?' ('Who was Mit- terrand?', 13 January). Surely this was not......
Ancient Greek Device
Sir: I began my review of C.M. Wood- house's book on the Greek activist and martyr Rhigas Velestinlis (Books, 16/23 December) with the words: 'Greece, as we all know, was......
Brits Out
Sir: I am sorry to see The Spectator allowing its contributors — two in the issue of 11 January — to use the abbreviation 'Brits', a word ugly to look at, hideous on the ear,......
Good Mark
Sir: Claire Boxer has obviously inherited her father's marvellous talents (Diary, 13 January). More please. Andrew Bruce 36 Lysias Road, London SW12......
Social Climbing
Sir: The only entertaining aspect of Simon Blow's 'Cold hearts and pawned coronets' (13 January) is his self-inflationary view . that he is an aristocrat. Would it be unkind to......
Sir: Simon Blow's Poignant Description Of The Indigent...
a very interest- ing comment on the problem of this group in different societies. Until fairly recently, young men in this country from this back- ground were accommodated in......
Sir: One Of The Drawbacks Of Middle Age Is That
one's memory starts to go. I am sorry to tell Anna Ford that I do not 'remember how, 30 years ago, by keeping our under- clothes on in bed we avoided making love'; but if she......
Sir: Simon Blow Is Far From Being Alone In Having
relations with more money than he has. He might try remembering that what they do with it is their business, not his. And if he could bring himself to do some- thing more......
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