24 JULY 1999, page 27

Sir Rudolf Was A Spy

From Mr Nigel West Sir: David Turner (Letters, 17 July) has quoted somewhat out of context what I wrote in 1987 about Professor Peierls's liti- gation against Richard Deacon's......

Pointless Polls

From Mr Andrew Cooper Sir: Bob Worcester's riposte (Letters, 17 July) to my article pointing out the pro- Labour bias in the opinion polls (`Labour poll-axed', 3 July) rests on......

Anglo-saxon Aptitudes

From Mr Ian Lawrence Sir: Peregrine Worsthorne describes Anglo-Saxon England before the Norman conquest as 'rude and unpolished' (As I was saying, 10 July). This is simply not......

Pauline Poppycock

From Lady Cudlipp Sir: Pious, goody-goody Saint Paul Johnson (And another thing, 19 June) didn't have the guts to take on someone with the cele- brated invective of Hugh Cudlipp......

Jutland's Sunken Dream

From Mr Arthur Hamilton Sir: In comparing the summers of 1914 and 1999, Frank Johnson (Shared opinion, 17 July) forgets that the navalists threw away Britain's naval supremacy......