The Swedish Mozart
From Professor John Poynton Sir: Peter Phillips (Arts, 21 January) regrets that Mozart’s 250th anniversary will overshadow other anniversaries. Most regrettable of all, I would......
Sacrifice
From William Kelley Sir: While I enjoyed Taki’s High life column last week, I feel I ought to point out that both Eton (1,157 killed) and Rugby (689 killed) lost more former......
Power Lines
From Eric Brown Sir: In ‘The Spectator’s Notes’ (21 January), Charles Moore writes: ‘The only part of mainland Britain where the North/South divide governs everything is Wales.’......
Band Of Brothers
From Christopher Arthur Sir: Reading Leo McKinstry’s very sensible piece about Ruth Kelly (‘Hate, hypocrisy and hysteria’, 21 January) and the pae dophile witch-hunt, I could......
Divide And Rule
From Martyn Marriott Sir: Rod Liddle (‘The politics of Pleasantville’, 21 January) chooses a poor example of political correctness in stating that Africa’s problems are really......
Ashamed
From Anthony Howard Sir: Gordon Brown asks us to be patriotic and to plant Union flags in our gardens. He should have thought of that before he supported his Prime Minister in......
Faith
From John Bunting Sir: Dr Chris Scanlan’s letter (21 January) and Richard Dawkins’s effusions show the extent to which fundamentalism is now taken as representative of religion......
Fallout
From Stuart Williams Sir: If I were a multibillionaire (And another thing, 21 January), I would buy an atom bomb from Mr Ahmadinejad and drop it on the Welsh Assembly. Stuart......
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