Unspeakable Usages
From Steven Poole Sir: In his review of my book, Unspeak (Books, 18 February) Graham Stewart asks rhetorically, ‘Can it be — as the casual reader might assume — that human......
Flooded By Facts
From Peter Hall Sir: Paul Johnson writes that if all the water in the ice caps and the glaciers melted ‘the sea level would not rise much’ (And another thing, 11 February). I’m......
Public Transport Pollutes
From Bruce van Biene Sir: Your correspondent Richard Laming (Letters, 11 February) believes that airlines benefit from an irrational tax policy since they do not have to pay......
Vae Victoribus!
From Arthur Hamilton Sir: David Kidd is wrong (Letters, 18 February). The first world war had to be fought to resist German domination. But once stalemate had arrived on the......
Polyglot Peter
From Michael Henderson Sir: Toby Young wonders (Theatre, 18 February) whether Peter Stein, the great German director responsible for the production of David Harrower’s play,......
Cynical Retort
From Ruth Chambers Sir: Whether or not the publication of the cartoons of Mohammed was ‘a case of appalling insensitivity and bad manners’ (Mark Glazebrook, Arts, 18 February),......
Rapacious Rabat
From Joseph Palley Sir: Tom Walker (‘Render unto Dubya’, 18 February) makes no mention of Morocco’s annexation of Western Sahara. Rabat is nakedly imperialist; its war with the......
Split Screen
From Robert Vincent Sir: Miriam Gross (Diary, 4 February) tells us that we have ‘again become a two-nation state’ because of ‘those who watched Big Brother and those that......
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