11 MARCH 2000, page 30

Instead Of Mugabe.. .

From Dr James Hargrave Sir: I feel that Stephen Goodson's letter (4 March) invites a response from a right- winger who had the pleasure of being enter- tained by Ian Smith in......

Multiplying Misprints

From Mr Keith Jenkins Sir: Mark Steyn's The rise of the FU move- ment' (4 March) was based on a mistake. There was no misprint in the Weekly Tele- graph; we referred to 'EU......

Making Up For Lost Words

From Mr Stephen Little Sir: I am distressed to read that Peter Hitchens believes the word 'gay' has been stolen (`As funny as an abattoir', 26 Febru- ary), when in fact it has......

Animal And Vegetable

From Mr E.B. Shaxson Sir: Your leading article of 4 March was no contribution to the genetically-modified food debate. You do not come to grips with the fundamental difference......

From Mr Peter Bottomley, Mp Sir: Stephen Goodson Writes That

in 1965 Southern Rhodesia could either have capit- ulated to a puppet Marxist regime or have gone it alone. The third way would have been OPOV — one person one vote. It allows......

Reverse Bowdlerization

From Dr T.P. Hudson Sir: Professor McWilliam's letter about Goldoni's A Servant to Two Masters (26 February) reminds me of a similarly uninhib- ited production of Moliere's Don......

Not One Of Ours

From Mr Adrian Aylward Sir: I refer to the letter by Adrian Hilton in The Spectator of 26 February. I should like to make it clear that no Jesuit priest from Stonyhurst was......

From Mr N.c. Cummins Sir: In His 'a Lexicon Of

Conservative cant' (19 February) Matthew Parris under 'gay' has failed to note the origin of the word decades ago on the US West Coast. Banners were put up by homosexual......

Taximetre

From Mr Evan Williams Sir: Jaspistos, your competition setter, says there are no rhymes for 'taxi' apart from `waxy' and 'the unsatisfactory Greek "en taxi"' (26 February). Fred......