A Partisan Presentation

Sir: Last week Melanie Phillips attacked the West's approach to the Palestinians as deluded (Gaza: another front in Iran's war', 23 June). But if her analysis carried sway it......

At War With Women

Sir: Further to M.R.D Foot's review (Books, 23 June), I should like to add a note about Joan Astley, now in her 97th year and as delightful as ever. I had the good fortune to......

Bad Form

Sir: As one who signed the candidates' book for Andrei Navrozov, might I apologise to Brooks's members for having done so? His views on the smoking ban are immaterial, just as......

Feathered Friends

Sir: I have been very interested in the recent correspondence about robins (Letters, 16 June). Many years ago, my mother was befriended by a robin which constantly followed her......

Learn To Love Them

Sir: Michael Henderson is wrong to call for the removal of the skateboarders from the South Bank (Arts, 9 June). The skateboarders complement the life and general hustle and......

Backing Black

Sir: Charles Moore is right to point out that the world's media have been 'greedily clamouring' for a guilty verdict in the case of Conrad Black (The Spectator's Notes, 16......