Branson Statue Riddle
From Mrs Caroline Kirk Sir: Talking, as Mark Palmer was (`How to cut your train fare', 5 August), of air-rifle time at the sight of Richard Branson's bal- loon, my daughter also......
No Lasting Victory
From Mr Vivian Linacre Sir: David Hughes's review of Humphrey Carpenter's book That Was Satire That Was (Books, 29 July) perpetuates the myth that the uninhibited undergraduate......
Tiger's Genes
From Mr R.S.F. Campbell Sir: Simon Barnes (BA Oxon, perhaps) fails to understand the reason for Tiger Woods's success (Sport, 29 July). It is what the geneti- cists call hybrid......
From Mr Jeffrey Makala Sir: This Is A Response To
Mr D. Raby's letter wondering why Americans travelling abroad are so universally disliked. The answer is simple, really: we are loud, vulgar and super- ficial. This puts us......
Yanks Deserve Our Thanks
From Mr Peter Macfarlane Sir: Those who are swift to denigrate Americans (Letters, 29 July) display an all too British condescension. We forget so quickly our continuing......
Harbour Humour
From Mr Simon Roberts Sir: Allow me to dredge up Joseph Mitchell from 'the bottom of the harbor' whither a somewhat tight-lipped Mary Wakefield seems to have dispatched him......
Carry On Abusing
From Mr SiO'n Simon Sir: Yet again, you have published a letter from Frederick Forsyth in which he blatant- ly fails to insult me (Letters, 5 August). His previous missive even......
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