The Stupid Party
Sir: Capitalism may never have done anything for any nation, but Patrick Cosgrave (20 December) misquotes what he calls `its most enduring statement of faith.' What Charles......
Forgotten Courtesies
Sir: May I appeal, through your columns, to newspaper editors to restore one or two of the traditional courtesies extended to their contri- butors? I was trained as a young......
Within The Meaning Of The Act
Sir: In the First World War, my father died as an Austrian officer; this will explain why I was mildly amused to read the indignant statement of Mr Auberon Waugh (6 Decem- ber):......
Comeback
Sir: J. W. M. Thompson is singularly perverse ('Spectator's notebook,' 20 December). He writes that Mr Wilson had 'better hasten his nobbling of the House of Lords or he might......
Biafra And Human Rights
Sir: Of your courtesy: I think I may have been among the first non-Jewish -writers in these islands to welcome publicly the setting up of the State of Israel in 1948, in the......
Quality Not Quantity
Sir: Of the self-inflicted wounds from which this country's financial life-blood at present gushes, the most ill-judged and dangerous is undoubtedly education. Allow me to put......
No. 533: Interview
COMPETITION Set by E. C. Jenkins: Walter Mitty never got round to being a Robin Day or a David Frost. Before television interviews are finally banned on account of their suspect......
No. 531: The Winners
Trevor Grove reports: Competitors were in- vited to compose an intelligible piece of prose around ten given words, chosen from the open- ing passages of a well-known book. They......
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