15 OCTOBER 1994, page 28

Girl Talk

Sir: Your correspondent, Jane Langley, (Letters, 8 October) took my words out of context from a second-hand source in describing me as 'extreme'. In my speech at Guildford High......

Porter Supporter

Sir: I attended the hearing at which coun- sel for Lady Porter, QC Mr Anthony Scrivenor, urged the Westminster District auditor to disqualify himself from hearing the case for......

A Brave Man

Sir: Michael Moran (Ties, damn lies and leprechauns', 17 September) fails suffi- ciently to emphasise the most striking fea- ture of Irish-American activism: the sheer,......

Raspberries, Actually

Sir: Anne Applebaum mentions that during his retirement Lloyd George won prizes for his blackcurrants at agricultural shows (`Take me to your ex-leader', 8 October), I believe,......

Michelangelo's Other David

Sir: David Ekserdjian (Arts, 8 October) mocks my challenge to Michael Hirst's defence of the National Gallery's attribu- tion of the painting The Entombment' by likening me to......

Sorry, Jack

Sir: Spare my grandson, aged five. Your brilliant front-cover cartoon (1 October) showed smiling Bambi Blair, blood drip- ping from his teeth, with Thumper Major a scavenged......

Ali's Only Mistake

Sir: Mea culpa, though perhaps not, I should add, Culpa MAXIMA. For besides an impressive number of witnesses of all classes besides many of her Romanov rela- tions, my lifelong......

Breast-groper

Sir: Phillip Hodson (Letters, 1 October) still seems to be groping around in the dark. The point, or rather points, at issue were not the singularity, duality or plurality of......

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