Sod The Public

Sir: A propos of 'Sod the Public' (Kingsley Amis, 19 October) the following six words chalked large on a blackboard at Bank Station the other day: NO PHONES NO CHANGE NO TOILETS......

Hatchet Job

Sir: It is unusual to watch a reviewer straining all his intellectual resources to damage the good name of his subject and only succeeding in damaging his own. I have not read......

Author Of Diana Cooper

Sir: Pace the agonisingly arch Kenneth Rose (Arts, 9 November) Diana Cooper has never repeat never been heard to refer to Harry Cust as 'Papa', which is how she quite naturally......

Cbi On Oaps

Sir: Following the rhetoric in your editorial 'Mr Fowler weakens' (26 October) there is a need to set the record straight. In our response to the Green Paper proposals on......

Letters Offending The French

Sir: Your diarist, Max Hastings (9 Novem- ber), is not only out of date, but also historically offensive to the French if he attributes to them today 'a spirit of Vichy'. Mr......

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