23 SEPTEMBER 2000, page 30

Illiteracy Is A Handicap

From Mr Tom Burkard Sir: Alexander Wade is quite right to point out how the feminist bias in primary educa- tion may leave active, unreconstructed boys at a disadvantage (The......

`terry's' Error

From Joanna Gray Sir: If Toby Young's cleaner is Polish, why does he insist on calling her by a Russian name (No life, 9 September)? Her calling him Terry instead of Toby could......

Jobs, Aids And Race

From Mr R.W. Johnson Sir: I was astonished to read Margaret Legum's letter (16 September) which seems to have virtually no contact with reality at all. She says that it is......

Our Jewish Allies

From Mr John Colvin Sir: To 'Kosher Cossacks' (16 September) one might add that Joselewicz's light caval- rymen in 1809 were not the only Jewish troops to fight for Poland (see......

Generation Drain

From Mr Chris Smith Sir: Re 'Too busy to have babies'. Yes, but do they ever add . . but thank God our mothers and fathers weren't'? Eleanor Mills's friends are clearly......

Wrong Totty

From Mr Nicholas Ridout Sir: Poor old No Dawnay's adolescent brain (`Enough of these frightful swots', 16 September) must have been more befud- dled than he thought — 'that......