4 JANUARY 1997, page 22

Castro's Ok

Sir: I wish to cancel my subscription to The Spectator immediately because of your arti- cle The spy of the century' (23 November), in which someone called James Srodes does a......

Counterblow

Sir: Roy Wright has shown himself to be yet another purveyor of malicious gossip (Let- ters, 14/21 December). He says that a Grosvenor Estate administrator told him that there......

Best, But Not Pleased

Sir: Giles Auty (Letters, 7 December) points out that Lucian Freud is the 'fore- most British painter of this century'. Looking, for instance, at 'Girl with a White Dog' in the......

Letters Not Fascist

Sir: It is always surprising when the appar- ently well-informed fall into the terminolog- ical trap of placing all 'right-wing' dictators and authoritarian rulers within the......

Speciator

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