11 APRIL 1987, page 22

Weekend Thesis

Sir: My friend Alan Waticins's memory is at fault (Diary, 28 March). Television programmes cannot afford to waste time, any more than columnists can: the attempt to induce him......

Wandering Voice

Sir: Whether it is due to the onset of Alzheimer's Disease or just his customary bilious fog, I am afraid that Auberon Waugh's memory is beginning to play tricks on him. Some......

Letters Independent Women

Sir: Piers Paul Read's article `Sex and Sin' (4 April) is based on an imaginary world where every woman could be married to a husband able to protect and provide for his family......

Jam Japanese

Sir: As I sit suffering in a British Rail train, a solution to the current trade deficit with Japan occurs to me. Surely British electronics can come up with a small device......

Heated

Sir: I was interested to read in your books pages (28 March) the rechauffe of Gavin Stamp's prejudices against Quinlan Terry, as first aired in the Telegraph. But surely like......

'self-hating Jew'

Sir: Charles Glass should not be permitted to get away with his description ('Senseless censors', 21 March) of Noam Chomsky as a `samizdat writer', appropriately published in a......

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