22 JULY 1995, page 23

Tory Tension

Sir: In each of his three most recent columns (City and suburban), Christopher Fildes has suggested affinity between cur- rent Conservative Euroturmoil and protec- tionist......

Sir:

Tristan Garel-Maastricht-Jones Now says he wants no Euro-clones. As acting, this is quite a meaty Slice of ham by Jones the Treaty. Irfon Roberts Priory Wall House, 3 Cocicshut......

Grow Up

Sir: J.D.N. Stobart's response (Letters, 17 June) to his horror at Alasdair Palmer's article (Prejudices on parade', 10 June) that he would not renew his subscription to The......

Sir: If I Have To Read Another Of Your Columnists

prattling on about Sir Thomas More, I may cancel my subscription. Jen- nifer Paterson is the latest example (Food, 24 June): 'We have had three good British saints this week. St......

Spot The Difference

Sir: Re the inadvertent transposition of two pages of Carole Morin's column (1 July): may I suggest that you try this more often? The column made no less sense than usual......

Death Of A Joke

Sir: My thanks to Peter Lewis (Letters, 8 July) for his explanation of the acronym Qantas. I had always thought it meant Quite A Nice Trip, All Survived. Ceadmon Featherston 91......

Royal Abstinence

Sir: R.V. Jones (Letters, 24 June) says he cannot find any reference to Alexander the Great's homosexuality in Plutarch's life of him and asks for the evidence of it. In Chapter......

Auty Down Under

Sir: I have been very moved by the number of kind letters I have received from readers of The Spectator. I fear I cannot answer them all but, in reply to a number of specif- ic......