30 AUGUST 1997, page 22

Sir: John Gummer, In His Attempt To Sound The Death-knell

of the Church of England, echoes the words written in 1832 by Arnold of Rugby: `The church as it now stands, no human power can save.' Only a year after that, the Oxford......

Sir: Sion Simon's Account Calls To Mind Another Dome Which

also failed to generate the political capital which Peter Mandel- son's great-grandfather and colleagues had hoped would result. The 1951 Festival of Britain exhibition on the......

Letters Support For The Dome

Sir: Sion Simon's fly-on-the-Cabinet-wall exposé of the millennium dome saga (`How New Labour was made to love the dome', 23 August) rests on a false premise which only appears......

Facts Under Fire

Sir: It was in fact my father, R.H.C. Steed, then Sefton Delmer's Berlin assistant, who telephoned the news of the Reichstag fire to the Daily Express office in London (Media......

Church Matters

Sir: John Gummer (Divorced from reality', 23 August) writes with all the fervour of a recent convert. The young American woman unfortunately married into the Kennedy dynasty......

Those Were The Days!

Sir: When my old friend Paul Gane (Let- ters, 16 August) and I were members of Harry Hanson's Court Players at the White Rock Pavilion, St Leonards-on-Sea, Hast- ings, I was......

Just Another Oik

Sir: Simon Blow (Packages of misery', 23 August) regrets the age of mass tourism, but his own youthful expedition to Tunisia to stay in the villa of wealthy Europeans was an......