Soane's Anachronism
Sir: Gavin Stamp (Letters, 18 August) has misunderstood my perhaps over-concise statement of the changes in the status of the Soane Museum. I must emphasise that the Museum is......
How To Phone-tap
Sir: Paul Johnson (The press, 18 August) is a little out of date when he says that 'Phone-tapping, in practice, is virtually confined to government and its agencies.' He is no......
Letters
Shares for all Sir:• Christopher Fildes's note 'A wider circle' (City and Suburban, 18 August) does little justice to the unprecedented steps which the Government is taking to......
American Females
Sir: Does your cookery correspondent Digby Anderson (11 August) suffer from birdcage palate? Besides all that macho nonsense about stinking game, he appears to condone smoking......
Beijing And Lyons
Sir: Geoffrey Wheatcroft (Diary, 11 Au- gust) objects to the Chinese capital being known in the West as Beijing. At the risk of a charge of didacticism, may I point out that the......
The Cossacks
Sir: Anyone who questions the plausibility of Virginia Moriconi's view of history, as summarised by Roger Lewis (Books, 14 July), should turn to Philip Warner's re- view of......
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