11 DECEMBER 1999, page 42

Out With The Voters

From Mr Peter Tatchell Sir: Robert Shrimsley is mistaken to accuse me of having 'hidden' my homosexuality when I stood as a Labour candidate in the 1983 Bermondsey by-election......

Third Way Wants Longer

From Mr R.J. Grant Sir: There may be those who think Michael Diboll's discernment of incipient fascism in the Blairite Third Way is paranoid (`Unite against the centre', 27......

Blunt About Burgess

From Mr Roger Lewis Sir: Allan Massie (Letters, 4 December) asks by whom Anthony Burgess has been forgot- ten? By my publishers, for a start. Picador commissioned me to write......

Wrong Verse

From Miss J. Greengrass Sir: Ignorance is not confined to the respon- dents to opinion pollsters (Shared opinion, 4 December). King Herod ordered the slaughter not of the......

From Mr Geoffrey Locke Sir: Noel Malcolm Undermines His Own

credibility by posing as a Serbo-Croat lin- guist. If he were, he would know that `Kacaniku' is merely the normal dative or locative case inflection of the Serbian place-name......

From Mr John Sweeney Sir: John Laughland Should Not Believe

the likes of me, one of the so-called 'propagan- dists' he reviles. He should go to Kosovo and see for himself. Go to Little Drusha. Last March, 118 Albanian men and boys were......

Forest Of Vardon

From Mr Euan Graham Sir: Vicki Woods concludes her review of Max Hastings's book Scattered Shots (4 December) by saying, 'I'll think I'll just mention the name Tiger Woods and......

Sticky Semantics

From Bishop Hugh Montefiore Sir: Though no expert on the contents of ladies' handbags, I wonder whether, if we accept Paul Johnson's list of their contents (And another thing,......