Carry On Klagenfurt

Sir: Nigel Nicolson (Long life, 9 May) pro- vides a lucid critique of Macmillan's role in the handover of Cossacks, non-Soviet émi- grés and Yugoslav citizens to be slaugh-......

Sting In The Tail

Sir: Mr Waterfield's quotation (Letters, 2 May) of the episode of the woman taken in adultery is incomplete. The woman's accusers indeed retired ashamed. Jesus then said,......

Semitic Semantics

Sir: Readers of your cover story by Gleb Shestakov (`The Bear bites the Jews again', 2 May) will note that the title promised more than the article itself delivers. Far from......

Just In Casey

Sir: As Auberon Waugh observes (Another voice, 16 May) the Casey affair was a laugh. All over Dublin students are arrayed in T- shirts inscribed with the legend: `Wear a Condom......

Soft Fuzz

Sir: Bone-headed policing of the kind recounted by Janine di Giovanni (`The unserious crime squad', 9 May) does not only betray a strange grasp of priorities. It is also very......

Open-handed Treatment

Sir: My attention has been drawn to an item in Portrait of the Week (9 May). It is stated that 'Recommendations published by the Scottish Law Commission will out- law the......