22 APRIL 1995, page 30

Thoughts For The Day

Sir: Mr A. N. Wilson claims, in his article `Origins of the empty tomb' (15 April), that St Paul introduced the idea of drinking the blood of Christ, but surely this was......

Out In The Cold

Sir: Your leader (8 April) encourages pub- lic sector workers to take a pay freeze. As a GP I would be delighted to, as long as I also had a work freeze. In the meantime, I gaze......

Pause For Thought

Sir: From the midst of the bromides and nebulous logic of Mr Tony Blair's article (The Spectator/Allied Dunbar lecture, 25 March) one idea shines through: 'Duty is the......

Sir: There Is No Need To Play Games Of `what

if' in order to determine the response of the British people to a Nazi occupation (What did you do in the occu- pation, Daddy?', 8 April); we need only examine what has happened......

Sir: Why Is The End Of The World Virtually An

unmentionable subject? Perhaps it is, in part, because so many, over several cen- turies, have got it wrong. Mather reason for the taboo is, without doubt, the popular view that......

Defending The Aged

Sir: Tabitha Troughton Match out, there's a granny about', 15 April) seeks to replace one set of tendentious nonsense with another. Simply because she knows half a dozen......