Threefold Errors
Sir: Paul Johnson (And another thing, 28 March) says that `E.H. Shepherd took immense pains to get the detail right'. Splendid. If he wants to follow suit it was Shepard not......
Save As You Flee
Sir: The amusing conclusion to Edward Whitley's guide to tax havens (`No place like home', 21 March) is sadly misleading, and thereby perhaps doubly amusing. Any company......
Sentimental
Sir: Keith Waterhouse asks (Diary, 14 March) what the policy of Spectator readers is on removing the names of the deceased from their address books. The tried and tested......
Sir: My Article 'the Scandal Of The Converts' Aid' (28
March) contains only one signifi- cant misprint (or whatever word is correct to describe the probable results of a gar- bled fax), but since it seems to imply more blame than is......
Not For Sale
Sir: City & Suburban's bid for Lloyd's of London (28 March) unfortunately tends to perpetuate a misunderstanding of the nature of Lloyd's, by implying he could buy LETTERS it in......
Sir: Mr Arthur Woods (letters, 21 March) Is In Threefold
error. It is not 'local legend' 'My God — he's skinned his Oscar.' but a famous bit of doggerel to which he refers, not the State of Massachusetts but its capital city of Boston......
Sir: Edward Whitley's Guide To Tax Havens, In The Event
of a Labour victory is obviously written in a tongue-in-cheek manner. One statement, however, is completely out of place and I would like to draw this to the attention of your......
Poetic Postscript
Sir: An addition to the 'Ode of Farewell to Mrs Thatcher' (Letters, 21 March): Hail to Mrs Thatcher Let nobody belittle her She has her place in history So have Stalin, Musso,......
The True Fax
Sir: An Albanian fax machine seems to have worked its alchemy on my article last week (Property is still theft', 28 March). The average weekly wage in Albania is not £7.50 but......