16 APRIL 2005, page 23

Blair And The Pope

From Tim Holman Sir: Peter Oborne is on devastating form describing Tony Blair’s rudeness towards the monarchy (‘How Blair betrays the Crown’, 9 April). Jack Straw’s description......

From C.d.c. Armstrong Sir: Peter Oborne’s Strictures On...

Minister’s decision to attend the funeral of Pope John Paul II are quite remarkable. He seems to believe that Mr Blair’s presence at the Vatican was inappropriate because......

From Sheila Donaldson Sir: Good Heavens — Do We Have

in Peter Oborne a writer for The Spectator who is not a Roman Catholic? How exciting! Sheila Donaldson Bromley, Kent......

Anything But Simple

From Chris Wright Sir: Dr Adrian Steele (Letters, 9 April) tells us that the Pope ‘could have been kept alive ... by the simple means of attaching him to an artificial......

Global Perspectives

From Tom Aitken Sir: Charles Moore, in a fit of boyish enthusiasm, proclaims that ‘there is no important organisation based in Western Europe, other than the Catholic Church,......

Scots In Parliament

From David Shiels Sir: Boris Johnson (Diary, 9 April) and Charles Moore (The Spectator’s Notes, 2 April) are correct to continue to draw attention to the problems created by the......

From John Wallace Sir: As A Scot Resident In Scotland,

I am surprisingly in sympathy with Boris Johnson’s viewpoint. Mr Johnson may, however, wish to explain why so many safe parliamentary seats in England are held by Scots of all......