19 JANUARY 2002, page 27

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......

Dot Wordworth

From Mr James Young Sir: Dot Wordsworth (Mind your language, 12 January) correctly prefers 'billiard ball' to 'billiards ball', and is supported by the Mikado (who prescribed......

Blair's Bad Taste

From Mrs Katie Grant Sir: Charles Moore (Diary. 12 January) thinks that Tony Blair's words of sympathy to the Browns for the loss of their baby, while sounding 'surreal' in......

The Battle For Books

From Mr Bob Duckett Sir: I bear no grudge that for £60 Mr Benedict King was able to acquire six volumes of Lord Byron's collected letters and journals at the expense of the......

From Ms Julia Lewis Sir: I'm Surprised That Baroness...

found my 'knockabout piece' misleading. All the facts about government policy came from her own Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Merton and Wandsworth councils told me......

Cruella Petronella

From Sir Anthony Montague Browne Sir: I hope Petronella Wyatt is ignorant of the crueller aspects of the fur trade (Singular life, 12 January), for to be the author of the......

Americans First

From Mr Michael L. Randall Sir: Anthony G. Phillips (Letters, 1 December) writes, 'Surely our morality does not deem the life of an Afghan peasant to be any less precious than......