10 SEPTEMBER 2005, page 22

Rspca Is Off Target

From Peter Luff, MP Sir: Simon Heffer was right to warn about the danger to shooting, and Charles Moore was equally right last week (The Spectator’s Notes, 3 September) to point......

From John Rolls Sir: Simon Heffer Says That ‘the Animal

rights fascists are now turning their attention to the killing of birds with guns’ (‘Gunning for game shooting’, 27 August). He asserts that the RSPCA ‘is heavily politicised......

Two Ways Of Trading

From Ronald Stewart-Brown Sir: Your clarion call to the Conservatives to ‘keep up the fight for an open, free-trading Europe’ (‘Why “Europe” matters’, 3 September) reads oddly......

Today’s Tamerlane

From Justin Marozzi Sir: You say that in the mass murderer stakes Tamburlaine, or Tamerlane, ‘comes a long way behind’ Lenin (Diary, 3 September). I’m not so sure. In many ways,......

Sad But True

From J.M. Hallinan Sir: Paul Johnson (And another thing, 27 August) despairs of ‘the sheer moral, emotional and intellectual emptiness of the universe’ as seen by the......

Tempting Fate

From Eric Brown Bromley, Kent Sir: What possessed Mike Atherton to write an article predicting an England victory (‘Triumph of the Poms’, 3 September)? And why on earth have the......