Letters

29 August 2009

Spectator readers respond to recent articles

Guns and poses

Sir: Fraser Nelson is doubtless right when he tells us that Mr Cameron has not gone deer-stalking on his Jura holiday, being ‘perhaps mindful of how photographs of him in tweeds and with a shotgun would go down on the urban election trail’ (Politics, 22 August). I would add only that the sight of him going after deer with a shotgun, rather than a rifle, would go down even worse with rural voters. Meanwhile Roger Alton, writing about the ‘Harlequins Bloodgate’ scandal, asserts that any ‘right-minded bogus cheat would have just limped off with a bogus hamstring strain’. The Harlequins officials and young Tom Williams, the player in question, may not be the brightest of folk, but at least they know the regulations concerning replacements. A player who has already been substituted, as the Harlequins fly-half Nick Evans had been, may return to the field to replace a player who has suffered a blood injury, but not one who leaves the field on account of any other injury. So if Williams had faked a hamstring strain, Evans would not have been permitted to replace him.

Allan Massie
Selkirk, Scotland

Will Dave do better?

Sir: Thank you for publishing Bryan Forbes’s excellent article on the vindictive minds of a bankrupt Labour party (‘It takes a vindictive mind to tax a lake’, 22 August). Sadly, I feel that Cameron’s ‘gang’, once in office, will prove equally incompetent. They show no true conservative conviction or ideas. Thatcher is vilified, Churchill long forgotten, and anyone who questions the status quo is expelled.

Malcolm Headley
West Wales

Cat flap

Sir: I wanted to cheer when I read Rod Liddle’s article (‘Let’s hear it for the python’, 15 August). Unfortunately, the law as it stands is firmly on the cat owner’s side. From my garden I have lost bank voles, wrens and dunnocks since the cat owners moved in next door, and I have no legal redress. Where are my rights?

Fred Coppenhall
Northwich, Cheshire

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David Keen

August 30th, 2009 8:01pm Report this comment

Sad to see Taki forgetting his remit is High Life; he is back on his subtle anti-Jewish theme, namimg Sugar, Green, Abramovich and Madoff exclusively. This is no coincidence. Much of his previous writings follow this theme. Nowhere is High Life relevant to its title. Perhaps it is time to retire the ancient Greek. (I am not even part-Jewish, but recognise this type of bias.Among others. Editorial checks seem non-existent as regards this foolish old contributor)

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