20 JANUARY 2001, page 25

Labour Pain

From Mr Kevin Peacock Sir: I wish to congratulate Andrew Duncan on an excellent article (*Why I no longer love Tony', 13 January). I'm a young professional from a working-class......

From Mr Howard Gray Sir: Andrew Duncan's Article On Ir35

is not correct with regard to the building trade. He says that carpenters 'possessing their own chisels' are self-employed in the eyes of the Inland Revenue — not so. When the......

Rotten Borough Brothers

From Mr Alistair Cooke, ORE......

Sir: 'where Is Ivelchester, Which Returned The Hon....

and the Hon. Felix Talmash? And who were they?' These abstruse elements of the history of the unreformed Parliament puzzled Geoffrey Wheatcroft when he came across them in an......

Translating Homer

From Mr Peter Jones Sir: Professor Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones (Emeritus Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford) raises a typically fascinating question when he asks (Letters, 13 January)......

A Tongue For Europe

From Victoria Elliott Sir: I was surprised when reading Peter Jones's column (Ancient and modern, 6 January) that he did not mention an obvious candidate for a common European......

Pg Quips

From Mr Robert McCnen Sir: I have been commissioned by Penguin Books and the Trustees of the Estate to write a new life of P.G. Wodehouse. I should be very interested to hear......