Poms Escape
Sir: Howard Zelling (Letters, 12 May) confirms that only one per cent of South Australians is capable of much more than watching grass grow. It is of course nice to know that it......
Letters
Beating the system Sir: Charles Moore (Politics, 19 May) errs by i nadvertence when he writes: 'Every child must go to school.' Certainly, every child must be educated, but the......
Palumbo Defended
Sir: Gavin Stamp's tirade against the Mies van der Rohe office tower in the City of London ('A monument to the dead', 12 May) was delivered with his customary elegance and......
Younger Fogey
Sir: Alan Watkins (Diary, 19 May) may owe the term 'Young Fogey' to Mr Terence Kilmartin, but it has quite a long history. So far as one can make out it was coined by John Wain......
Serious Joke
12 .Mr Waugh's allegation (Another voice, IS May) that Merseysiders smell is puzzling. he serious? But surely he must realise that smelly bodies are no commoner here than in......
Speaking Style
S ir: Months before I saw the Scargill salute c ommercial television this evening, I had en meaning to ask whether it would be ben to mount a film of clips of Adolf Hitler......
Cicero And St Jerome
Sir: Apropos of Charles Mosley's accusation (Letters, 21 April) that Christianity 'transmuted the golden Latin of Cicero into the dross of the Vulgate', it is known that St......
Fags
Sir: Alan Watkins is I think confused. His `intolerant' American who ran round the bar at Sadler's Wells shouting 'f...ing fags' (Diary, 19 May) was surely not referring to......
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