13 JANUARY 1996, page 26

Captures And Sackings

Sir: It seems to be an obsession with the Crusades that has caused Mr Anton La Guardia to write such an extraordinarily misleading article ('Where the Crusades live on', 30......

Bruce Anderson Writes: Bill Cash Did Reject The Offer Of

a mere PPS-ship to a mere Minister of State — which is not a govern- ment job. I believe that he would have accepted such a job had he been offered one in the late Eighties, as......

Sir: Is Bruce Anderson A Government Stool- Pigeon?

Norman Henry 29 Inglefield Avenue, Heath, Cardiff, Wales......

Sir: Unlike Bruce Anderson, I Have Great Respect For Emma

Nicholson, not least for her adoption of an Iraqi orphan after we bombed the hell out of the Iraqis five years ago. Lucian Phipps 31 Chepstow Villas, London, W11......

Of Honourable Importance

Sir: Sir Ludovic Kennedy asks at the end of his article whether honours matter and, if so, to whom? (`Thatcher stopped my knighthood', 6 January). Presumably to Sir Ludovic......

Airwaves Critic

Sir: I am glad The Spectator now has a radio critic. Like him, I don't mind Mr Paul Gambaccini on Radio Three (Radio, 6 Jan- uary). What I do dislike are the thin, colourless......

The Bill And Bruce Show

Sir: I am writing to you today because I am surprised and, I have to say, extremely dis- appointed that The Spectator published Mr Mr Bruce Anderson's article without checking......

Sir: It Obviously Matters To Sir Ludovic. After All, He

accepted the K as more fitting to his status than the C! Dr J.F. Hare 18 Kent Avenue, London W13......