The Chilean Experience
Sir: Tim Congdon reports (19 September) that Chile has made a remarkable economic recovery since introducing strict monetarism and he argues that this cannot be put down to the......
Alec's Appetite
Sir: Auberon Waugh's moving and witty tribute to his uncle Alec (12 September) is in one respect — his uncle's `voracious sexual appetit e , drawn in lurid and exaggerated......
Portentous Prophet
Sir: Nostradamus's eerie prophecies may have even greater immediacy than that suggested by Richard West in his fascinating article on the 16th century seer (19 September). For......
Gulag In South Africa?
Sir: I feel that I cannot allow a remark made by Nicholas von Hoffman in his article 'The problems of power' (12 September) to pass without comment: `The fact that the South......
Critics' Choice
Sir: As a former theatre critic and author who has seen all the leading Hamlets over a period of 50 years, including the great ones of John Gielgud and Donald Wolfit in the......
After Arthur
Sir: Might one say that Arthur Marshall's sacking, or, as he so nobly puts it, 'discontinuance' from the New Statesman is the most horrendous example yet of the intolerance of......
Sir: There Was A Time When No Saturday Evening Was
complete without a couple of hours in the local, spent perusing the Spectator (for its, oh well, good-natured sense) and another weekly publication (somewhat to your left, a......
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