Wrong Weir
Sir: In his review of a book by Zachary Leader (16 February), Peter Levi refers to Robert Louis Stevenson's famous novel as The Weir of Hermiston, thereby giving the impression......
Relief From Kuwait
Sir: No commentator upon the war in the Gulf has remarked that it must strike a chord in the heart of John Profumo. As Christopher Booker wrote in The Neophiliacs: July 1961......
Wind Up
Sir: Ian Buruma (`What are we fighting for?' 2 February) was right on target. However, the mention of the word 'kami- kaze' itself also rekindles religious beliefs. Although......
Fugger And Defuck
Sir: My wife and I have always thought that it was a bishop of Augsburg called Fugger who died of a surfeit of Est! Est! Est! (Restaurant, 2 February). Down here, wine is......
Wrong Mann
Sir: In his review of Golo Mann's Re- miniscences and Reflections (Books, 26 January) Piers Paul Read attributes the following quote to Golo Mann: 'They will publish excerpts......
Turbulent Priest
Sir: As one who listened, with increasing annoyance, to the pacifist sermon preached by Father Michael Prior on the Gulf war, I was somewhat bemused by his riposte last week to......
Lowering
Sir: How I agree with Paul Johnson (The media, 23 February) about the decline in the quality of the voices that go with the images on television (and in the vocal sounds of......
Still Slopping Out
Sir: 'The hard cell' by Taki (9 February) should be no sell at all. The impression he gives is completely out of date. Pentonville today is well advanced in a rebuilding......
Freedom Fighters
Sir: With all due respect to Noel Malcolm, he is incorrect to state (Margaret Thatch- er: the silent years', 16 February) that apart from the IEDSS there is 'not a single......
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