26 MAY 2007, page 24

Is It Right To Aspire?

Sir: According to your leading article, ‘The Tory party is a party of aspiration or it is nothing’ (19 May). If this means that the Tory party is a party in the interest......

Sir: Congratulations On Your Leading Article. I Have...

my membership of the Conservative party. As an ex-grammar school boy, from modest circumstances, who gained a place at Oxford and is now in a professional occupation, I cannot......

An Interest In War

Sir: I read Andrew Roberts’s Biggles-like comments in Blair: A Modern Tragedy (12 May) with amazement, given the still-deepening catastrophe in Iraq as reported week by week.......

Vaccines Don’t Kill

Sir: Whatever the cause, the deaths of Harry and Christopher Clark were a tragedy, as was that of their mother. Their family has our sympathy. Neville Hodgkinson argues (‘What......

Dim Sum

Sir: Charles Moore asks what name should be given to the ‘dumbing down’ which threatens to reverse the Renaissance (Spectator’s Notes, 19 May). Then, reborn learning replaced......