Sin Song
Sir: It was his mother whom Ned didn't want them to tell (Competition, 18 July). A. P. Herbert's poem, 'Don't tell my mother I'm living in sin; for see what it done to me! A......
Thrumbled
Sir: The young William Cooper ('Choirs and kisses', 11 July) may have had cause to be grateful for small mercies. It was always an excitement to swing the thurible, but I have......
Falkland Motives
Sir: My friend Michael Horovitz may believe that there was 'no valid use or reason' (Letters, 8 August) for the Falk- land campaign and the deaths caused by it. While not......
Gulf Club
Sir: The answer to Mr Moore's query (Diary, 15 August) lies in Iran/Iraq chauvi- nistic rivalry some 30 years ago when I lived in Basrah, Iraq. It was promulgated (I know not by......
Wrong Inferences
Sir: I respect Mr Wythe's contempt for my belief that MPs need somewhat more than the glory to sustain them in a political career. But I must correct two mis- statements of fact......
The Real Bill
Sir: May I answer the attacks of John Gibbs and Mabyn Fletcher (Letters, 8 August) please? Far from being a 'sort of patronising middle-class twit' who sells Militant and has a......
Watts Wrong
Sir: I was much amused to see Mary Soames's remarks (Diary, 4 July) on G. F. Watts's statue 'Physical energy'. My grand- father, Dr Thomas Bond of the Westmins- ter Hospital,......
Crambe Repetita
Sir: As a devoted reader of the Spectator, I look forward eagerly to Jennifer Paterson's food column. I do, however, think that her suggestion of serving cold meat, and pre-......
Wright On The Bbc
Sir: Although some of the detail in Simon Freeman's article (`The BBC gets camera- shy', 8 August) is inaccurate, difficulties did exist over the proposed edition of Panorama on......
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