Churls
Sir: The nigger/nig-nog correspondence of recent weeks is beginning to smack of something a lot less wholesome than nos- talgia for prep school nicknames. In 1984. these words......
No Hope
Sir: So once again it is the Moslems alone who get the bad press, this time from Nicholas Coleridge (Diary, 30 June), who recounts how they spit on pavements in Ladbroke Grove......
No Substitute
Sir: Is Matthew Parris (`The origin of sex', 7 July) right to regard sex as a substitute for aggression as if the two things were separate? Aggression is a basically mascu- line......
Victim's Repute
Sir: Paul Johnson (The press, 7 July) is mistaken in suggesting that the crown is under a duty to emphasise the good charac- ter and innocence of a murder victim. On the......
Propaganda War
Sir: Paul Johnson's article ('A Thatcher Suicide?', 30 June) on the ineptitude of government (and NCB) public relations was so apt that one hesitates to paint the lily. But......
Letters
Less than fair Sir: I should perhaps accept Auberon Waugh's compliment (Another voice, 23 June) in grateful silence but, being singled out for favourable mention, I feel a duty......
Bbc Culture
Sir: The Philistines are, of course, always with us, and evidence of their fell work is all around us, but it is alarming indeed that they are active in Doughty Street, advocat-......
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