Sir: Jack Holland Writes That 40 Million People In The

USA claim to be of Irish descent and that therefore the USA could bring pressure to bear on British policy in Northern Ireland. What he excluded is the fact that the same survey......

Sir: Jack Holland Says That, Since The End Of The

Cold War, preserving the special rela- tionship with Britain is less important to the Americans. Isn't it also less important to us? What terrible consequences would we risk by......

Necessaria

Sir: Dot Wordsworth is not quite correct in claiming that both the words 'lavatory' and `toilet', derive from the name of a place where one washed one's hands (Mind your......

Lady On A Train

Sir: Colonel Fred Burnaby (Letters, 31 October 1992), my great-great-uncle, was never forward with a lady on a train and certainly never resigned from his regiment — indeed if......

Irish Mist

Sir: Your contributor, Jack Holland, urges the British Government to exploit Ameri- ca's interest in Northern Ireland, not scorn it CA little help from our friends', 9 Jan-......

The Way In

Sir: Hester McIntyre has described in your pages the 'Varsity entrance torture' (9 Jan- uary) she suffered trying to enter Oxford. The utter unsuitability of interviewing for......

There Is An Alternative

Sir: About four months ago, one of your correspondents reported the existence of a town in the state of Wyoming (USA) with the unusual name of Maggie's Nipples. Information from......