11 NOVEMBER 2006, page 28

From William Shawcross Sir: In His Letter Critical Of My

support for the US and British commitment to Iraq, Jonathan Mirsky asserts that the ‘brutal truth’, in Iraq as in Vietnam, ‘is that the insurgents are far more willing to die......

Blair’s War Crimes

From J.G. Cluff Sir: I expect that I am not the only Spectator reader to have become exasperated by your consistent support for the Bush/Blair axis of incompetence in Iraq and......

A Time For Tiles For All

From Malcolm Knott Sir: Not only are gentlemen in period drama given anachronistic wedding rings; they are also robbed of their hats (Letters, 4 November). Until the late 1930s......

Flawed State Building

From Michael Shuttleworth Sir: Matthew d’Ancona (‘How to build the peace’, 4 November) lets Paddy Ashdown off very lightly. Five years of non-conflict and raising state......

Irony Down Under

From Dov Midalia Sir: Paul Johnson’s (And another thing, 28 October) nod to Australian nicknames failed to mention their ironic tendency: a red-haired man is invariably Blue, a......

Everyone Else Pollutes

From Madeleine Cutts-Watson Sir: H.O. Mounce (Letters, 21 October) has completely missed Charles Moore’s point. He says his mother never travelled far out of her home town; but......

Toorop Was A Dutchman

From Helma Drukker Sir: Thank you very much for the informative review of the James Ensor exhibition in Ostend (Arts, 4 November). However, Mark Glazebrook names Toorop as a......