11 OCTOBER 2003, page 38

The Party's Over

From Geoffrey Harrison Sir: Peter Hitchens is right in his analysis CA party split from top to toe', 4 October). I would go further — the Conservative party has been slowly......

From Iv Carter Sir: The Very Grievous Truth Of Peter

Hitchens's article on the Tory party springs, I suggest, from the conversion of formal politics into an equal-opportunity professional career. To the perks that always came with......

From Dr A.d. Harvey Sir: I Am Surprised That Peter

Hitchens describes the Conservative party as a coalition of irreconcilables. Most of the British electorate see the Conservative party as a coalition of chaps perfectly......

Gellhorn's Selective Rage

From Sir Peregrine Worsthorne Sir: Victoria Glendinning refers to Martha Gellhorri's 'rage at injustices perpetrated on the poor and powerless, and at the stupidity and......

Charterhouse Blues

From Dirk van Heck Sir: I was saddened but unsurprised to read of Charterhouse's decision to sell off its unique museum (`The treason of the beaks', 4 October). As recently as......