13 MARCH 1993, page 30

Cloudy Vision

Sir: 'It may have been the sight of all those Cuban women in their 'dirty underwear' or all those 'middle-class women on the game', but John Simpson must have been hallucinating......

Letters Old Habits Die Hard

Sir: Paul Johnson dwells on the endemic corruption rife in most member states of the EEC and points out the difference between them and, so far, the UK (And another thing, 27......

Sir: Your Chorus Of Disapproval (letters, 27 February)...

enfranchise- ment may look for support from Sidney and Beatrice Webb (Socialism: True and False, 1894): Fabianism has no desire to see the Duke of Bedford replaced by 500 little......

Flogging The Point

Sir: Frederick Lawton's discussion of the shortcomings of our penal system (Prison is not enough', 27 February) reminds me of an incident which took place whilst I was at......

Eminence Grise

Sir: As my contribution to the correspon- dence in your pages concerning the Hous- ing and Urban Development Bill, may I point out that an anagram of 'Sir George Young' works......

History Lesson

Sir: The Secretary of State for Education in `Just keep rolling along' (30 January) claims that it was a Tory government that gave the vote to women in 1918. Lloyd George did......

Irish Humour

Sir: Mr Auberon Waugh (Another voice, 27 February) has stated that 'it is no longer possible to tell an American's sex by its name'. Is this his own opinion, or did he find it......

Loyal Subjects All

Sir: Robert Ballantine (Letters, 6 March) asks how many of the Catholics at Sunday Mass in England are English? I cannot give any precise figures but without dotIbt the answer......