25 MAY 1985, page 25

Gentle Taki

Sir: Until your edition of 4 May, I had always tended to believe like Colin Welch that many custodial sentences do more harm than good. But what are we to make of Taki? Having a......

Corked

Sir: Ausonius was a Roman poet (fourth century) who gave his name to Château Ausone, one of the great wines of France, premier des grands crus de St Emilion. He is thought to......

Letters

Pillar of orthodoxy Sir: `Quae peior mors animae quam liber- tas erroris' — the words are St Augustine's — so, perhaps, Mr Patrick Marnham's otherwise splendid article (The Pope......

Public Speaking

Sir: I refer to Mr Christopher Edwards's review (Theatre, 11 May) of Noel Co- ward's Cavalcade, in which he says: . . his working class speech is comically mis- conceived and......

The Spectator

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