English Wit
From Mr Roger Vellacott Sir: Many educated Englishmen have long believed that, as long as something is both LETTERS clever and funny, it is a good thing; no other criteria, such......
In Praise Of Oakley
From Patricia Bate Sir: How disgraceful that our (and your) own Robin Oakley should be pushed aside a year early from his post as BBC political editor — on the flimsy pretext of......
From Mr David Foster Sir: Only In Quite A Narrow
band of the mid- dle class is it acceptable for the best man to tell blue jokes, certainly never at upper- or lower-class weddings. Mr Young's discom- fiture was the result not......
Please Help
From Mr Bernard Jones Sir: I am a poorly funded, retired man who wonders if Spectator readers could sugges t an agreeable foreign country to relocate to, where I could build......
Female Squatters
From Mr J.H. Forster Sir: I am surprised that in response to the rather coy exchanges about whether to stand or sit (Letters, 13 May) no one has yet called attention to the......
Heath Encounter
From Mr Earle Cross Sir: I enjoyed Frank Johnson's piece on the rudest man in England (Shared opinion, 6 May), though I question his observation that Sir Edward has never been......
Asparagus Tips
From Mr Robert Booth Sir: Simon Courtauld (Arts, 6 May) admits that he doesn't have a passion for aspara- gus. He doesn't have a passion for accuracy either. Leaves from our......
From Mr Lain Cassie Sir: Your Readers Might Like To
consider that micturating while sitting down does benefit those men who have trouble with a bad back in that it spares them the risk of injury from lifting heavy weights. lain......
Unfair To Subs
From Mr Patrick Tailyour Sir: Alistair Horne in his excellent article on the Maginot Line (The dread of body- bags', 13 May) refers to 'how ghastly it would have been during the......
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