Thatcher’s Champion
Sir: The Spectator may have been Margaret Thatcher’s first press champion as Fraser Nelson notes (‘Labour’s best hope’, 17 May), but its support was not unwavering. At the end......
Fare’s Unfair
Sir: Tom Harris, the rail minister (Letters, 17 May), rightly states that it would be unacceptable for the government to subsidise journalists and businessmen for first-class......
Scripture Lesson
Sir: Theo Hobson’s interview with Gene Robinson (‘It’s harder for straights to feel Christian charity than gays’, 10 May) certainly clarifies the issue at stake. It is not......
Religious Howlers
Sir: With reference to Eric Brown (Letters, 17 May), verbal anachronisms are not the only plague in Foyle’s War . Its religious howlers are worse. In a recent episode, the......
Markham My Words
Sir: Charles Moore tells us (The Spectator’s Notes, 17 May) that property prices in Markham Square, Chelsea, have rocketed from £7,800 in 1955 for the house in which his wife......
Great Suit
Sir: Reading Joan Collins’s piece on Doug Hayward (‘An Actor’s Life’, 17 May) reminded me of the brief but happy time I spent working for Doug in his Mount Street shop. My job......
Ear Witness
Sir: It was Jocelyn Hambro, chairman of Hambros Bank — not, as your correspondent Richard Skilbeck tells us (Letters, 17 May), Bernard Levin — who called Harold Wilson the worst......
General Knowledge
Sir: If Charles Moore (The Spectator’s Notes, 10 May) thinks that Che Guevara held the rank of general, it just shows that Collegers don’t know as much as they think they do.......
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