27 OCTOBER 2007, page 21

Stolen Seats

Sir: On what evidence does Stephen Pollard (Politics, 20 October) base his contention that the 'only possible reading of the past three decades' is that the voters 'turn to the......

Inherited Virtue

Sir: Irwin Stelzer (Listen to Adam Smith: inheritance tax is good', 20 October) suggests that inheritance tax is a good thing economically because the absence of inheritance......

Islam And Truth

Sir: Piers Paul Read (The Muslims' letter to the Pope is not all it seems', 20 October) raises many good points but asserts that Islam enjoins truth. At the risk of attracting......

Potato Head

Sir: Following the recent behaviour of the Prime Minister, should he not perhaps be known as 'Hash Brown'? IM Leggett Wimborne, Dorset......

History Retouched

Sir: Norman Stone ('What has this "genocide" to do with Congress?', 20 October) raises the red herring of alleged forgeries without mentioning that 'the professor at Princeton'......

Wrong About Rights

Sir: Whilst I agree with Julian Brazier (Letters, 20 October) that human rights have a murky 'Enlightenment' provenance, his American Civil War example is inaccurate. Rights......