The Jewish Question
Sir: Frederic Raphael, in his ranting review of Bryan Cheyette's study of anti-Semitism in English literature, reveals something of his own ignorance of both topics (Books, 26......
Death Of Daintiness
Sir: I buy and read women's fashion maga- zines, mostly because of my own interest in and about fashion. An aeon ago I was a fashion model, then worked in fashion retailing and......
Owning Up
Sir: Mr Michael Allsopp expresses his indignation that a lady should be allowed to precede a gentleman down the corridors of the Eastern and Oriental Express, so forc- ing her......
Bristol Fashion
Sir: In the spirit of eponyms of dissent such as 'boycott', being 'sent to Coventry' and even the 'Harvey Smith', surely the time has come to find one for women priests. After......
Tay For Two
Sir: No problem with Mary Ellen Synon's assertion that Dublin speech conserves many features of 17th-century English (`David Dimbleby gets it backwards', 5 March), but surely......
Sir: Has Frederic Raphael Ever Read Rud- Yard Kipling?...
was no toady — he refused a knighthood rather than compro- mise his independence and he was one of the very few Englishmen of his generation who were not even slightly......
Ouch
Sir: Field Marshal Sir Francis Festing had a remedy for the peccadilloes of those in high places. On hearing of an indiscretion, he would merely say 'Snip, snip'. This would be......
Spies Like Us
Sir: When Mr Gordievsky comments on the possible repercussions to others of Aldrich Ames's 'treachery' (`Aldrich Ames, my would-be killer', 5 March), surely he is at the same......
No Turner Glut
Sir: Your readers who are now pouring into Agnews to see our loan exhibition of Turn- er watercolours arranged to mark my forth- coming retirement from the firm have been taken......
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