Why Old Reagan Went
Sir: Regarding that geriatric warmonger Ronald Wilson Reagan ('Culchies and radicals', 19 May), the reason why his great-grand-father left Ballyporeen was his impregnation of a......
French Leave
Sir: 'Do you realise that in France they have however-many-it-is more public holidays than we do?' hears Alan Watkins at dinner parties and in saloon bars (Diary, 12 May).......
Patrick Jenkin's Axe
Sir: I must add a further class of Co nservative to those listed by Neville Beale ( Letters, 28 April) who oppose the abolition 13 , f the GLC and the metropolitan counties. 't......
Before Newmarket
Sir: It might be unconscious, but there is in Simon Blow's amusing article on Newmarket ('Newmarket's old brigade', 12 May) a slight whiff of anti-Arab patronage. That the Arabs......
Not Bingo
Sir: Please inform your distinguished Centrepiece writer Colin Welch (26 May) that it was not Bingo Little who rediscovered his mislaid fiancee at the Empire Exhibition but......
The Other Peregrine
Sir: I am sorry that I unthinkingly disturbed Mr Worsthorne's prenominal pre-eminence (Diary, 26 May). I once sat between two other Peregrines at school and have been quite......
Sir: If Alastair Forbes Thinks That Alexander Chancellor,...
role of TV critic, 'really must brush up his English Sight reading', may I suggest that he himself could well brush up his grasp of English Syntax. Indeed, after reading — for......
Letters
Stern rebukes Sir: I know I am not the first person to Point out that part of the Spectator's appeal Ls the clarity brevity and wit that are , characteristic of most of the......
Oradour
Sir: I feel compelled to correct the totally erroneous account of the events at Oradour given in Francis King's review of The Pork Butcher by David Hughes (Books, 5 May). I......
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