No Treachery

Sir: Jock Bruce-Gardyne is an exchange rate watcher, when it comes to evaluating monetary conditions. He is even one of the band in the City and Whitehall that is pressing the......

Forthcoming James

Sir: Byron Rogers is very kind to me in your Christmas Books section (7 Decem- ber), but he is not quite kind enough to publishers. I was ill, but I am now writing again, and my......

Letters Women Priests

Sir: I am truly grateful for Andrew Gim- son's article, 'Can women be priests?' (23 November). A layman of the Church of England, I also have 'huge reasons to say no'. It was......

Half-baked

Sir: I should like to comment on the `nightmare quality' of such sneery articles on women's magazines as Digby Ander- son's CA pinch of ground glass', 14 De- cember). They......

Valets

Sir: In the Spectator of 19 October (Diary), Richard Ingrams asks, 'Who said, "No man is a hero to his valet"?' In his essay on repentance, written between 1585 and 1588, Michel......

The Spectator

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