Lobby Division
Sir: Derek Draper states (Diary, 18 July), 'Done competently and ethically, lobbying is an aid to democracy.' As the lobbyist's services are generally only available to those......
Johnsonisms
Sir: Surely Paul Johnson's 'I hold no partic- ular brief for Ms Hurley: she is a girl one occasionally chats to at parties' (And another thing, 18 July) must be one of the most......
Blathering Blow
Sir: What is this fixation The Spectator seems to have about Simon Blow and the Tennants (Books, 18 July)? After (yet another) three columns of blather last week I still don't......
Dark Purpose
Sir: In spite of Alfred Sherman's cautious attempts to make it appear innocuous (Books, 11 July), Mark Mazower's book Dark Continent is a Marxist-Stalinist tract. It is also......
Id. Addison
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Sir: Paul Johnson Is Absolutely Right. There Are Too Many
columnists in English-lan- guage journalism and some of them stoop, as he says, to personal abuse that is igno- rant, nasty, queasy-making and brutal. His 18 July column is all......
Whose Land?
Sir: Mark Corby (`Israel as Crusader', 11 July) gives the impression that Islam has occupied Palestine since time immemorial with transient interruptions by Crusaders and now by......
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