19 JANUARY 2002, page 26

An Unjust War

From Mr Stephen Plowden Sir: Peter HaM (`No Hain, no gain', 12 January) reproaches the 'pacifist opt-out Left' for 'not eating humble pie for how wrong they have been proved'......

Resilient Rainbow Nation

From Mr Adam R. Fleming Sir: Andrew Kenny's recent article about South Africa ('Black people aren't animals', 29 December) made depressing reading. But it was ever thus. Since......

Naffness At The Abbey

From Audrey Butler Sir: Jessica Douglas-Home (Tangs, but no thanks', 12 January) doesn't need to go to Romania to see an example of 'Dracula vandalisation'. Very soon she will......

Repackaging The Past

From Mr Peter Padfield Sir: Frank Johnson is right (Shared opinion', 12 January): my book, Hess, the Fiihrer's Disciple. makes no mention of Churchill's threat to arrest Lord......