13 OCTOBER 1984, page 23

Ratzinger's Prizes

Sir: If Cardinal Ratzinger has a more flippant and cynical attitude to his fellow men than Vera Buchanan showed ('Fraternal conversation', 6 October), he deserves all the prizes......

Muzak Off

Sir: Apropos prayer against 'noise persecu- tion' by F. Knox (Letters, 22 September). Asked recently by a most polite waitress at a Crest Hotels restaurant in Southsea if I......

Rugby Council

Sir: By mentioning Rugby council's ban on the employment of homosexuals (Portrait of the week, 6 October), you have placed on record a decision that is both monstrous and......

Chancellor's Statement

Sir: During an absence of Mr Peregrine Worsthorne from our shared office at the Sunday Telegraph, I took the liberty of measuring both our desks and found that while it is true......

Who Lobbs?

50 Claremont Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent......

New Philosophy

Sir: Shakespeare is one thing, professional philosophy is another (Letters, 6 October). Many of us have no difficulty with Hobbes; it is contemporary philosophers we are unable......

Letters

Inauspicious Pilger Sir: In his review of William Shawcross's book The Quality of Mercy (Books, 29 September), Richard West quotes the author as saying I visited Cambodia in......