18 AUGUST 2001, page 30

Fmd Vaccines Work

From Mr Keith Erlandson Sir: Peter °borne comments (Politics, 11 August), 'We do not know the truth about vaccination.' Outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease recently have been......

Literary Feng Shui

From Mr Jack Robertson Sir: Bevis Hillier's review of the Clive James essays (Books. 4 August) articulates neatly the authorial shift underlying the 'social commentary' of......

Checks To The Hague

From Ms Chris Harmer Sir: Mr Stewart (Above the law', 4 August) gives a spurious account of the powers of the new permanent International Criminal Court which he misrepresents......

The Grace Of God

From Mr Robert Triggs Sir: It is worth recording that Canon Brian Brindley, whose spectacular death at his 70th birthday party at the Athenaeum you described last week Mast......

Bottomley's Pocket

From E.S Turner Sir: Matthew Parris (Another voice, 11 August) failed to mention one good deed by Horatio Bottomley which merits praise. His John Bull ran a literary competition......

Pinta Girl

From Mr Peter Moore Sir: She will be outraged at such sexism, but I wonder if Mary Wakefield has the slightest notion of how much she lost many of us older readers by her......

Shampoo

From Mr Colin Allan Sir: Your recent diarists, Charles Moore (28 July) and Adam Nicolson (11 August), will find an excellent product, clearly labelled 'Shampoo to control oily......