28 OCTOBER 2006, page 30

Where Crime Rules Supreme

From Johan Alberts Sir: Sadly, Rian Malan’s assessment of the South African saga is all too true (‘South Africa’s future will not be civil war but sad decay’, 14 October).......

Gin Lane And Big Macs

From Derrick Anderson Sir: I am writing to take issue with the article by Allister Heath about the recent shooting in McDonald’s in Brixton (‘The mean streets of Britain’, 7......

Brotherly Confusion

From Michael Grosvenor Myer Sir: Perhaps ‘The whole of Edgar’s “Now, gods, stand up for bastards” soliloquy is missing’, as Lloyd Evans complains (Arts, 21 October), from the......

With Friends Like These...

From Colin Price Sir: Rod Liddle complains about the lack of support given to the English Music Festival (‘No funds for the English Music Festival’, 21 October). He might like......

Cheap Flights Hurt The Poor

From John Stewart Sir: In his paragraph in praise of cheap flights (The Spectator’s Notes, 14 October), Charles Moore alleges that the ‘greens’ genuine concern with the......

A Blasphemous Belief

From Kevin Holland Sir: I usually greatly enjoy reading Paul Johnson’s column, except when he succumbs to offensive, arbitrary and illogical arguments in favour of the existence......

Elusive Titles

From Gerard Sproston Sir: Allan Massie (Books, 21 October) cannot lay his hands on a copy of Maugham’s Christmas Holiday . As a librarian (retired) I despair. There is a copy......