10 SEPTEMBER 1988, page 24

Sir: I Happened To Be Reading The Last Issue Of

The Spectator (13 August) in the idle hours between deliveries doing night shift in the obstetrics department here. During that night I delivered six babies all heading for an......

Letters Playing The Euro-game

Sir: I recently spent a total of three hours waiting in a British Rail travel-centre queue in the course of making travel arrangements to various EEC countries. During this......

Hess Or No

Sir: In his review of Hugh Thomas's book (23 July), John Zametica claims that the man who died in Spandau Prison last year was not Rudolf Hess. Such a claim may be substantiated......

Awful Austria

Sir: Having been away, I have only now caught up with the Austrian minister's comments (Letters 27, August) on my review of some books about his country. He writes that 'within......

Bogle-men

Sir: Poor Mr Bogle (Letters, 27 August). Whenever he goes to church or reads some literature published by Anglicans, he sees political activists with guns or sexual per- verts......