Xantippean Virtue
Sir: Reading Ferdinand Mount's review of Peter Brown's book on Christian chastity (4 March), I am reminded of the Persian Jalal ud-Din Rumi's argument against Christian......
Once A Poet .
Sir: In reference to Stephen Spender on Louis MacNeice (`Seal of approval', 4 March), I learned of MacNeice's death from a two-line obituary in a Chicago newspaper column......
Labour Partiality
Sir: In urging that it is 'Time to turn to Labour', A. N. Wilson (11 March) suggests that deterioration in Britain's public ser- vices, from the railways to the NHS, is a......
Letters Bose By Any Other Name
Sir: We regret that Mihir Bose's name was erroneously added to the list of signatories to the World Statement in defence of Salman Rushdie and his publishers ('Rent- a-mob for......
`know What I Mean'
Sir: Jeffrey Bernard (Low life, 18 March) reminds us of Terry Lawless's advice to Frank Bruno 'that he musn't have sex before the fight with Mike Tyson'. Howev- er, I am......
Murphy's Nuclear Law
Sir: Mr Martin's letter (11 March) is a good one, vitiated by another of those nuclear canards. You do have to balance risks against benefits, in nuclear power as in every other......
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