Budd's Books
Sir: Horace Budd would enjoy being re- membered in the Spectator (Letters, 9 March). I knew him for some years before the war. A great talker and teacher, he introduced me to......
Cliché
Sir: I have read with interest Andrew Brown's thoughts on the miners' strike and the descriptions of his David Attenborough-like visits to the primitive village of Hemsworth......
Index Of Civilisation
Sir: Your editorial and letters pages (9 March) have recently taken to accusing this city of being uncivilised because of an alleged lack of secondhand bookshops. In Birmingham......
Letters
Palestine: whose country? Sir: Writing of Joan Peters's From Time Immemorial, Lionel Bloch (Letters, 23 March) says that we 'catalogued some weeks ago in the London Review of......
Chesterton At His Worst
Sir: As a lover of G. K. Chesterton at his best, I wish that David Watkins's argument (Letters, 9 March), that his anti-semitism, largely an infection from Belloc (and his own......
Anarchist Order
Sir: Shiva Naipaul (Books, 23 March) reviews Alice Wexler's biography of Emma Goldman from a position of blissful ignorance. Whatever he may suppose, anarchism does 'really......
Tallis
Sir: Is there some way in which you could persuade the excellent Peter Phillips to look after Christopher Edwards for a bit? The choral music opening Bristol Old Vic's Richard......
Unsung Engineers
Sir: Priscilla Metcalf (Letters, 30 March) obviously did not have the advantage of the composer of your amusing ballad on an Engineers' Corner in Westminster Abbey, that of......
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