1 JULY 1995, page 27

Smacking Bottomley

Sir: Peter Bottomley takes issue with Boris Johnson's understanding of the effect of a Public Interest Immunity Certificate (Let- ters, 17 June). Judges may indeed admit......

Sir: Michael Armitage (letters, 24 June) Seems To Base His

argument against homo- sexuals in the military on the fact that as a young man he and his colleagues sniggered about an assumed — not proved — rela- tionship between a......

Now Look You

Sir: Mr Alan Watkins claims that Sir Kings- ley Amis's best novels 'have a Welsh or, specifically, a Swansea setting' and he includes Lucky Jim among them (Books, 10 June). But......

Bosnian Star Trek

Sir: Although Mr P.R. Watkins vaguely dis- agrees (Letters, 24 June) with my article on British and UN attitudes to Bosnia, he does not contest the accuracy of a single factual......

Aussie War Aims

Sir: One hesitates to take issue with a sage but Auberon Waugh (Another voice, 27 May) is mistaken in his belief that Australia lost the Vietnam war. Australia's war aim was to......

Against The Odds

Sir: If Mr Palmer imagines that the average air-marshal has often slept in a barrack room between two homosexuals, he knows little of either air-marshals or of homosexu- als......

Hole In One

Sir: 'Whoever heard of a queer golfer?' Mr Paul Johnson asks (Another voice, 17 June). One answer that comes to mind is Terence Rattigan, fine playwright and fine player at......