11 JUNE 2005, page 18

Good Value

From David Conway Sir: Ross Clark says that NHS Trusts are ‘stuffed with local worthies drawing generous salaries and pensions’. I object. Like all other non-executive directors......

Welcome To America

From Nick C. Flynn Sir: Come on, you guys (‘Now for the British revolution’, 4 June). Tell the EU to take a hike. You know you really want to. Face it, your relationship with......

Insult To Injury

From Jeffrey D. Sachs Sir: Tim Congdon has now matched his illinformed review of my book with an even more preposterous and rude letter (21 May). Congdon persists in claiming......

A Settled Debt

From Robert Triggs Sir: I should like to pay tribute to the far reaching influence of the letters page in The Spectator . In the edition of 29 January this year I drew attention......

Hoover’s Blond Wig

From Anthony Summers Sir: Gwynplaine MacIntyre writes (Letters, 21 May) that my biography of J. Edgar Hoover, Official and Confidential , contained the ‘outright lie’ that the......

Toilet Trouble

From Sir Ludovic Kennedy Sir: With regard to ‘toilets’ (The Spectator’s Notes, 4 June), it depends entirely on whom one is talking to. To Charles Moore, for instance, I would......