2 JANUARY 1993, page 21

What A Pain

Sir: Alistair Forbes always gives the impres- sion of being better informed about his old friends' sex lives than their biographers, so perhaps he could answer this question......

Not Guilty

Sir: Ian Buruma writes ('Germany's deep well of hate', 5 December) of the right-wing demo he attended in Halle, Germany, on 9 November 1991, and of the press confer- ence that......

Smoke-screen

Sir: I read with interest Nicholas Farrell's article on the dangers of passive smoking (Passive smoking: the big lie', 14 Novem- ber). His barrage of statistics proves again......

In Defence Of Men

Sir: Isabel Wolffs article, 'Domestic vio- lence: the other side' (28 November), is most welcome reading. As she implies, the situation is much worse in the United States. It is......

Three Wrongs . . .

Sir: Mr William Oddie is quite wrong to describe me as an enemy of Dr Graham Leonard, and as a regular contributor to the Tablet, and as an enemy of the present Pope ('No sects......

Boo To You, Too

Sir: Does Paul Johnson (And another thing, 19/26 December) consider it never appropriate to boo at the opera? Perhaps he has never seen a bad production or, at least, not......

Letters Saving Grace

Sir: It does seem to me to be extraordinary, not to say deeply significant, that one can read two major articles (Hugh Massingberd and Paul Johnson, 12 December) on the current......