30 APRIL 1994, page 28

When It's Its

Sir: A question for Mr Keith Waterhouse CA message from the AAAA's president', 16 April), esteemed president of the Asso- ciation for the Annihilation of the Aberrant......

Lost For Words

Sir: It was only from the excellent, if a little too charitable, article by Dr Mark Almond that I learned about Sir Peter Ustinov's indulgent views of labour camps (Teter......

A Prize Bore

Sir: Robert Harris's statement (Diary, 23 April) that The Road Names of Thatcham is 'possibly the most boring title in the history of English literature' cannot go unchal-......

Pre-emptive Strike

Sir: In his criticism of western military action in Bosnia, Simon Jenkins ('We should beware the laptop bombardiers', 23 April) 'In some areas we're reverting to traditional......

Answers On A Postcard

Sir: Perhaps I can set you a friendly chal- lenge? You say (City and Suburban, 23 April) that my primary purpose in life is the search for a weekly headline — and that many of......

Splitting Hairs

Sir: Winston Churchill may or may not have been a racist ('Winston replied that he didn't like blackamoors', 9 April), but the point cannot be made from his use of the......

Peace In His Time

Sir: I read with interest, and inescapable dismay, Alan Clark's dismissive review of Clive Ponting's biography of Churchill (Books, 23 April), not because I dissent from the......