French Lessons
From Lord Tebbit Sir: Peter Oborne (Politics, 21 May) finds it curious that British and French opponents of the European constitution find precisely opposite faults in what it......
From Patrick Ussher Sir: Peter Oborne’s Account Of French...
about the Whit Monday holiday tells only part of the story. None of the pay for work done on that day was to go to the worker. All of it was to be snaffled for a fund in aid of......
Undemocratic Reaction
From Tom Carter Sir: If you really think that first-past-thepost is as brilliant as all that (Leading article, 21 May), please consider what happened in Northern Ireland in the......
They Can’t Leave
From Gerald Hitman Sir: I wonder which Belarus Julian Evans visited to prepare his article (‘Is Belarus next in line?’, 14 May). In the one I know, schools are without electric......
Rosebery Brought To Book
From Allan Massie Sir: In what is on the whole an admirable and perceptive review of Leo McKinstry’s Rosebery , Jane Ridley asserts that ‘There has never been a full biography’......
Seduction At Sea
From Christopher Chetwode Sir: In his article about Lord Cardigan and D.H. Lawrence (And another thing, 21 May), Paul Johnson wishes that there was a book about the great steam......
Big Fish
From Bernard Hassan Sir: King Carlos of Portugal may have published a book on tuna (‘Food for thought’, 21 May), but two other reigning monarchs have published extensively on......
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