1 JUNE 1991, page 25

Southern Discomfort

Sir: I am so glad that Taki feels com- plimented when his views are described as politically incorrect. Hopefully he will feel equally flattered if I describe his comments on......

Art For Vat's Sake

Sir: Your piece on 'how modern painters can still save the world' (Another voice, 27 April) raised the topic of contemporary art in a pugnacious manner. Auberon Waugh praised......

Ex Cathedral

Sir . : Mr Wilton's letter (27 April) about Frederick Stocken's architectural oratorio The Cathedral has me 'confess', in my `lengthy' review, that I left during the work's......

Real Relief

Sir: Like many other of your readers, I am sure, I get bombarded with requests for charitable aid to Ethiopia and the. Sudan. Their plight is terrible, and I try to sub- scribe......

Sir: Jews Can Crack Anti-semitic Jokes, And Blacks...

for the same reason that I can call my mother an old cow, but if you call my mother an old cow I'll punch your nose. Our right to be rude about our own families — and our races......

Old Flames

Sir: Arthur Oliver of Palermo, British Intelligence officer in Sicily at the end of the second world war, and son of the ghost story writer Oliver Onions, told me strictly off......

Goys Will Be Goys

Sir: I enjoyed Michael Lewis (`The rising price of Jewish jokes', 25 May), but he misses the point. There is a strong, long tradition of self-denying Jewish humour. It's not......