Fetchit, Boy
Sir: In his review of the film Car Wash ( 4 June) Clancy Sigal opines that it is 'a little late I would have thought for Stepin Fetchit to rise from the dead'. In case anyone......
Dead And Buried
Sir: Mr George Hutchinson in your issue of 11 June confines me (with Sir Oswald Mosley) to the 'pantheon', which my dictionary defines as 'a building where the nation's famous......
Sir: May I Point Out Two Factual Errors In Your
otherwise excellent editorial The bles sings of continuity (4 June)? You say that the Queen embodies 'the nation and national unity'. This is strictly untrue, if only for the......
Sir: Page 14 Of The Current Number Of The Spectator
(4 June) is very disgusting, with its vulgar and pointless cartoon and the opinions of secondto tenth-rate 'personalities'. Mr Kingsley Amis and Mr John Braine are excepted.......
Sir: On 14 May Last You Published A Letter From
me Nod save Ulster') in which I called Britain 'Weak, seedy, down-at-heel, shabby'. I should very much like to retract these words now, and to apologise to you and your readers......
Sir: Isn't It Time That Your Employee Chosen To Write...
He may feel able (11 June) to `predict with some confidence that everyone will be heartily glad when it is all over' (it being the Jubilee `yawnorama') but he is wrong. Many......
Sir: Miaow. A Saucer Of Milk For Richard Ingrams. He
is obviously jealous over Huw Wheldon's deft and interesting covering of the vast treasures of our Royal Heritage. He is nasty, too, over objets d'art. 'If we have lost all the......
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