To Dot

Sir: A column entitled 'Mind Your Lan- guage' is an obvious target for pedantic comment. Might I therefore remind Dot Wordsworth that Omnibus (`for all') is a dative not an......

Help-line

Sir: Would you please set up an 0898 num- ber for people who want to talk about Paul Johnson? Martin Clark 1 Brookside, Eaglesfield, Cockermouth, Cumbria......

Taste In Opera

Sir: If your wine critic were to admit he had no taste for claret, we should forgive him; but if he added that he could not tell the difference between Château Talbot and......

Loafers For The Pope

Sir: It is not good that an excellent periodi- cal such as The Spectator should be perpet- uating the myth that the Pope wears Doc Martens, even if it is via a cartoon (9......

Allason Hoist

Sir: With his usual accuracy, the tiresome Rupert Allason MP misses the point of my letter about scoundrelly MPs who use the Commons to defame private citizens, safe in the......

Wishful Dudley Edwards

Sir: Of course Ruth Dudley Edwards is right to prefer internment north and south of the border simultaneously to just having it in the north (The case for internment', 9 March).......

Bogus Nationalism

Sir: For an Englishman of partly Scottish descent, this anti-English business, as described by Alan Cochrane (`Flower of Thatcherism', 2 March) is a bit of a pain. On the merits......