Tolerance And Idealisation

Sir: It is curious of your reviewer, Robert Skidelsky, to have written (23 April) nearly three columns on A. • L. Rowse's Homosexuals in History, without once remarking that......

The Mosleys

Sir: Neither Mr Gorden (14 May) nor Mr Forbes (30 April) seems content that Mosley's . pre-war policies were different from those of the Germans. Their lengthy diatribes amount......

1984

Sir: In his Notebook (14 May), Richard West mentioned some ways in which Orwell's vision of 1984 has already been surpassed in 1977. A further pertinent example concerns the......

Lib-lab Pact

Sir: From the columns of a weekly newspaper, circa 1962: 'There Will be no Lib-Lab election pact because "politics are a matter of principle and not a cynical exercise in......

Religion In Schools

Sir: Well done, Mr Cosgrave, on your encouraging lock at 'the fourth R' (7 May), and for your reminder of, and defence of, our schools' responsibility under the 1944 Act. Long......

True Toryism

Sir: How welcome it was to hear thre e leading Conservatives recently. Lord Hailsham (29 March) was calling on td, Conservative Party to show sound practical reasoning designed......

Breathtaking

Sir: The contempt for your readers that you demonstrate by continuing to emploY Richard Ingrams as your TV critic is tr. 111 Y d breathtaking. Hiring unquali fie ,......