18 MARCH 2006, page 26

Schools Aren’t Clubs

From Nicholas Nelson Sir: Have you given proper thought to the reason that we have an education system (Leading article, 11 March)? Our schools have an essential list of......

Where Trendy Parisians Go

From Daniel T. Perkins Sir: I agree with Allister Heath’s view of the Imprimerie Nationale and the passport debacle (‘300,000 Frenchmen can’t be wrong’, 11 March), but the......

Our Disappearing Rivers

From Alastair Harper Sir: Lord Lawson in his otherwise commonsensical perusal of ‘global warming’ should be reproved for his assertion that ‘the volume of water flowing down the......

Politics Is For Hypocrites

From Dr Michael Lynch Sir: Ferdinand Mount should take comfort, if not joy, from the refusal of the young to be hoodwinked by the so-called democratic process (Letters, 11......

The Charming Mrs A.j.p.

From Richard Ingrams Sir: Paul Johnson (And another thing, 11 March) describes A.J.P. Taylor’s third wife Eva as ‘a Hungarian communist, a sourfaced lady. What A.J.P. saw in her......

False News From Berkeley

From Dr Ian Mortimer Sir: Jonathan Sumption implies in his review (Books, 25 February) that my research on Edward II’s death — which concludes that he was not murdered, and that......

Gordon’s Dress Code

From Basil Dewing Sir: Irwin Stelzer is wrong to write that ‘Brown wouldn’t be caught dead in a dinner jacket, much less white tie’ (‘Cameron is the Tory Muhammad Ali’, 11......

Jesus The Literate

From Roy Ford Sir: Lloyd Evans (Books, 11 March) is incorrect when he writes that Jesus could not read. Please see Luke iv 16ff. He could also write: John viii 6-8. Roy Ford......