Free Quotation
Free quotation Sir: I write with reference to the item in Notes (2 February) on the 1985 London Conference on Communism and Liberal Democracy. I regret that a mistake was made......
Malthusian Hyperbole
Malthusian hyperbole Sir: Stan Gebler Davies shows he's weak on Irish demography ('Irish bastards', 2 February). His spectre of two million unemployed youths at the end of the......
Merger
Merger Sir: How satisfying to see the Spectator and Guardian's women's page combine. Poor Beryl Bainbridge (Diary, 2 February), and her dear friend Laurie and her baby by her......
Major-general Gordon
Major-General Gordon I Sir: In his interesting article about Gordon and Gessi (26 January) Roy MacGregorHastie wrote that 'unlike David and Jonathan they were divided in death.'......
English Tea
English tea Sir: Ausonius (Wine, 2 February) need have gone no farther than Brown's Hotel for a proper English tea. This time last year, when the weather was cold and......
Home Life
Home life Sir: Not knowing him, I wish Taki no ill. However, if it allows us to continue reading Alice Thomas Ellis's 'Home life' for a long future, I would wish him a pleasant,......
Wife's Earnings
Letters Wife's earnings Sir: One way of bringing down the level of unemployment among young people would be to abolish the Wife's Earned Income Allowance. This was introduced, I......
Jargon
Jargon Sir: Paul Johnson referred (The press, 19 January) to a left-wing article, recently published in the Guardian, as 'written in the most appalling jargon throughout'. On......
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