15 JANUARY 2005, page 22

Don’t Blame Davis

From Robin Harris Sir: My old friend Bruce Anderson doubtless wishes to do his friends in the Notting Hill set some good by blaming the continued poor Conservative showing upon......

From Alistair Cooke Sir: It Is A Pity That Bruce

Anderson’s final flourish did not embody accurately the chilling image of ‘the feathers of death’. An anonymous seaman writing to tell Queen Elizabeth I of his eagerness to lay......

Towards A New Europe

From Denis MacShane MP Sir: I read with interest Peter Jones’s argument that as ‘tribalism finished Rome it will finish Brussels too’ (Ancient & modern, 1 January). As an......

Tsunami Silence

From Ian Barber Sir: Stephen Glover’s glib dismissal of the three-minute silence for victims of the Asian tsunami was a study in Eurosceptic inaccuracy (Media studies, 8......

Made In China

From Marguerite Maddox Sir: By chance I read Martin Vander Weyer’s article on the impotence of China as a putative superpower (‘China won’t be a superpower’, 8 January) on the......

Blunkett’s Parenting Advice

From Carol Cooper Sir: Victor Black’s letter (1 January) referring to David Blunkett’s disgraceful manipulation of his so-called parental rights over William reminded me of an......

Bringing Lindsay To Book

From Tom Sutcliffe Sir: Paul Sutton, editor of Lindsay Anderson’s Diaries , replied to my review by suggesting I had invented a letter from Lindsay to him (Letters, 18/25......