Kleptocracy
Sir: It is perhaps appropriate that an academic, who is not a 'professional friend of Africa,' should make some comment on Tibor Szamuely's glowing review of Professor An-......
Slips Showing
Sir: Had your reviewer been able to list all the slips in Professor Mack Smith's History of Sicily he might have mentioned also the mis- takes about Vincenzo Florio of whom he......
The Case Against Import Controls
Sir: May I reply briefly to the 'technical' points raised by Mr Peter Jay, when arguing against import controls, ,t1though 1 agree with Mr Robert Skidelsky (Letters, 18 October)......
Sir: I Have Just Read Professor Mack Smith's History Of
Sicily and the review (4 October) en- titled, appropriately, 'Slips showing.' I am not sure whether to attribute Professor Mack Smith's statement that 'the English wine......
Lord Cranfield As He Wasn't Sir : If Mr Robin
Bousfield Wished to be rude (Letters, 11 October), he succeeded very poliiel} But as G. K. Chesterton said, there are no un- interesting things, only uninterested people . 'What......
Flashback
Sir : Lady de Zulueta (Letters, 18 October) is sure I have been fair to the late Sir Malcolm Sargent, according to my lights; thinks I didn't know my subject very - well (I met......
Meden Agan
Sir : As we have been publicly invited to accept guidance from the classics, would it not be well to take a more comprehensive view? Unlike others I make no claim to be a......
Letter To A Bureaucrat
Sir: Col. Strix should count the blessings of his bureaucrats (18 October). Postcodes, I guess, are to be occupant-group personalised. We at Stinkwort Cottage are labelled RG9......
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