George Is Innocent

Sir: I fear my memory played me false when in my piece last week (Taal, fatal, fatal', 28 November) I lumped George Walden together with Sir Edward Heath and Robert Adley as MPs......

All Over My Face

Sir: I notice with horror my omission from my recipe for Christmas pudding (Autumn food and drink, 7 November). My list of ingredients, inexplicably, does not contain a......

Sir: Reluctant Though I Am Ever To Disagree With John

Simpson, and even sadder to do so after his brilliant and sympathetic piece about my country, I fear he is wrong on one point. The word `culchee', a pejorative term used by......

Papal Myth

Sir: I am afraid that Guy Evans, (Letters, 28 November) is well within the realms of Papal fiction when it comes to any discus- sion of a supposedly female Pope or indeed the......

Not Robbed, Rescued

Sir: John Simpson's allegation that Richard J. Daley 'manipulated' the Chicago vote to carry that election of Kennedy in 1960 is at best ambiguous and at worst thoroughly......

Northern Seriousness

Sir: Nigel Nicolson's columns are a splen- did addition to The Spectator's regular fea- tures, an acknowledgment that you have readers whose memories go back before Harold......