Pulling Together

Sir: In his review of Matt Ridley's excellent book, The Origins of Virtue (Books, 11 Jan- uary), Keith Ward accuses Dr Ridley of being 'held captive by the metaphor he has......

Wrong Again

Sir: Alastair Forbes is in fact mistaken again (Letters, 11 January), just as he still is about his story of Eden and Fulke Warwick. My house is not the one formerly owned by......

A Hewison Speaks

Sir: All right, for a considerable number of years Sheridan Morley and I collaborated on the weekly drama review page of Punch, he producing the words, I the caricature drawing......

A Matter Of Time

Sir: I have no intention of entering into a debate with Nicholas de Jongh (Letters, 11 January) about which of us admired Jack Tinker's personality more or which of us will be......

Not That Titillated

Sir: Had I known my handwriting was so unreadable I would not have forgotten to put my address on my letter to you (11 January). Had I done so, I might have anticipated a flood......

Duke Ali

Sir: A reader asks, who is Alastair Forbes (Letters, 11 January)? An artist friend of mine (and Ali's) went to America, where Ali has connections, and asked about him. `If we......

The Fur Flies

Sir: Petronella Wyatt's ill-informed and big- oted Diary condemning anti-fur activists as `anti-human' (11 January) was rife with alle- gations and insults but — not......