Sir: Lloyd George Indeed Spoke Of The Defeated Tories In
1906 as dying with their drawn salaries in their hands, but he was echoing Charles Dickens in Little Dorrit who speaks of Henry Gowan as .. a com- missioner of nothing in......
Still Sensitive
Sir: Jan Morris's article ('Long live Karl the Good', 29 June) is, in my opinion, below the standard of The Spectator. In Germany, only charwomen pay attention to royal......
Sir: Did Even Harold Wilson In His Last Months As
prime minister attract such scathing contempt as Paul Johnson expressed for John Major? Let us hope the idealistic Tony Blair, if and when he tries to lead us into the promised......
Of Marches And Men
Sir: It is tendentious of Bruce Anderson to equate Orangemen marching through Catholic estates in Northern Ireland with Londoners putting up with the traffic dis- ruption caused......
Letters
Finkelstein's fan Sir: Peter Oborne is a stimulating and inge- nious commentator but, in his profile of Danny Finkelstein ('Ex-Labour, ex-SDP and now excessive?', 13 July) he......
Three Other Things
Sir: Paul Johnson claims that no major post-war event like nationalisation or decolonisation was contained in an elec- toral manifesto (And another thing, 13 July). Not so. In......
Choral Competition
Sir: It is somewhat disingenuous of Peter Phillips to use (and surely reprehensible of The Spectator to allow him to use) his music column to attack the existence of the BBC......
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