24 AUGUST 1991, page 21

Weak-willed

Sir: Paul Johnson (17 August) writes: 'Like any good newspaper, the Lymington Times gives full details of local wills', revealing the `enormous sums' left by retiring officers.......

Sir: Mr Michael Lewis, Like Many Another Foreigner Before...

has got it all wrong in his remarks about the British character. What he mistakes for rudeness is in fact apprehension at the prospect of meeting someone from a country where......

Bad Manners

Sir: In Michael Lewis's article on American Anglophobes (17 August) most of his examples of British bad manners expose the British upper middle class as the offenders. I believe......

Nincom's Bunkum

Sir: Your ingenious colleague, Jaspistos, reveals himself in one respect a nincom- poop. 'And since y is a consonant...,' he wrote, instancing Dalrymple (Competition, 6 July).......

Non Memorandum

Sir: In your issue of 3 August, page 18, Gavin Stamp claims 'all staff in English Heritage were recently issued with a mem- orandum instructing them . . . never to talk to......

Prince Michael Of Kent Apology

In an article entitled The Royal Con- fidants (`Rory Knight Bruce attempts to discover which members of the royal family help the gossip columnists') published on 13 July 1991,......

Noel Malcolm And Christopher Fades Are Away

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