Sir: Perhaps Readers Should Have Been Spared The...
offensive com- ments on Dennis Potter until we could be convinced that Liz Hodgkinson would meet intense pain and impending death in as artic- ulate, frank and humorous a......
Pass On The Honours
Sir: Enough of this self-congratulatory chat- ter from third-class Balliol men (Letters, 9 April, 26 March; Long life, 19 February). Every member of that college who is worth......
Deadly Sting
Sir: The motives behind the writing of Liz Hodgkinson's article (`The joy of illness', 16 April) quite beggar the imagination. Was it for the money? Surely not. Or merely, per-......
Red Herring
Sir: I read with interest the article concern- ing 'red mercury' (`The phantom red ter- ror', 16 April), as we have been offered this substance several times in the past two......
Unpalatable Truth
Sir: I notice that William Shawcross is still sulking over the critical walloping inflicted on his biography of Rupert Murdoch two years ago. In your Letters page of 16 April,......
T'werp At T'mill
Sir: 'Twerp' was certainly being used well before the first world war (Letters, 2 April), and derives from the Lancashire cotton mill industry. When the werp got caught up in......
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