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Page V Waugh

Sir: Unlike A ubcron Waugh, I try to make a habit of admitting it when I'm wrong. Sorry about saying Philistine for Pharisee: too long since I was in Bible class. It doesn't......

The Irish

Sir: I was amused to read Richard West's panegyric to Eire (27 May) as I also read the Irish Post —the paper of several hundreds of thousands of Irish immigrants in this......

Liberating Women?

Sir: In her excellent essay on the abortion era 1968-78(3 June) Mary Kenny describes the impact of Glasgow's slums on Mrs Judy Steel and no doubt on her husband David, MP. I......

Anarchism

Sir: Gerald Howson's review of Murray Bookchin's book The Spanish Anarchists (10 June) treats the subject in such a puzzled way that it seems appropriate to correct some of his......

Nancy Cunard's Bracelets

Sir: Since the promised biography of Nancy Cunard seems permanently postponed wonder if you or any of your readers can answer a question that is agitating a few of us here in......