Green Cause
Sir: If Michael Cullup wants to pursue a career in journalism he ought to start by getting his facts right (`Savage Greenery', 10 February). Last year Friends of the Earth,......
Speed The Plough
Sir; Let me assure Jennifer Paterson (Food, 13 January) that the plough is brought to the chancel arch of Pevensey Church every Plough Sunday to begin the farming year. As the......
Entitlement
Sir: Now that Keith Waterhouse has im- mortalised the unwell Jeffrey Bernard, and is presumably looking about for further inspiration, perhaps I may be permitted to respectfully......
Lit. Crit.
Sir: I am another ardent reader of The Spectator who, like David Astor and Steven Rawson (Letters, 13 January), would be relieved if Wallace Arnold might take his unedifying......
Sir: It Is Sad To See An Old Man Attacked
in the pages of your 'organ' — dread word — (Letters, 13 January) especially one who in his day wrote with such erudition and modesty. If today his wit has dimmed a little and......
Dreadco
Sir: I was dismayed to read `Thulium Snow' (Scenes from science, 17 February), in which William Cooper describes the work of Dreadco without giving it due credit. My company......
Allegorical
Sir: One hesitates to take issue with Islamic experts, but the statement (Diary, 10 February) that there is nothing in Islam to imply that the meaning of the Scripture is not......
The Old School
Sir: What a lucky little chap Henry Bowen is to have such a clever Mummy to intro- duce him to The Spectator cartoons (Let- ters, 17 February). I'm a Granny and have no one to......
A Dictionary Of Cant
CONSERVATIVE. A word now used by television announcers and in the press to describe hard-line Marxists and socialists in the Soviet Union and other communist countries. Nigel......
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