Reach And Grasp
Sir: The latitude of irrelevance to his designated subject that you have always allowed Richard Ingrams is curious but has sometimes produced readable results. It seems to me,......
The Seeds Of Hatred
Sir: Richard West, for all I know, may be totally correct in his diagnosis of the Brixton riots (18 April) but the form of his argument does not inspire confidence, Peer through......
For The Disabled
Sir: In 'Against the disabled' (21 March), Auberon Waugh suggests that to be disabled entitles one to be bitter, and that disabled people in receipt of various cash benefits......
Ladies Of Detection
Sir: Surely your reviewer (Hugh Massingberd, 11 April) is mistaken in calling Anna Katharine Green 'the first woman to write detective fiction.' The Leavenworth Case (though I......
Episcopal Rebuke
Sir: To Paul Johnson's vignettes of Bishops Mandell Creighton and Winnington Ingram (11 April) can perhaps be added one of an earlier Bishop of London, William Blomfield. He had......
At Length?
Sir: Peter Ackroyd writes the best film criticism around and his review of Roman Polanski's Tess (18 April) exceeds, if anything, his usual brilliant standard. However, I am......
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