11 JULY 1992, page 25

Twin Peaks

Sir: Surely neither the elevation of Mar- garet Thatcher to the Lords nor her record- ing of the Gettysburg Address is as startling as the town in Wyoming which revels in the......

More Loos And Barthes

Sir: I do not want a nitpicking correspon- dence to continue indefinitely but I cannot allow Christopher Bray to get away with the misquotations in his review of my novel The......

Onward Christian Soldier

Sir: Your leading article (`So shall ye sow' , 4 July) manages to imply that organisations like Christian Aid have funded brutalitY and murder in South Africa. This is com -......

Nil Nisi Bonum

Sir: Andrew Gimson makes his point — almost anything one reads in the press on a subject one happens to know about proves to be wrong, or at best misleading' (Diary, 27 June) —......