3 JULY 2004, page 27

Never Plead Guilty

From Cdr John Lewis RN Sir: In Life and Letters (26 June), Dr A.D. Harvey is quoted as referring to 'the possibility of prosecuting Noel Coward for a transatlantic tax dodge......

Drugs Do Harm

From Geoffrey Davies Sir: Charles Moore is right (The Spectator's Notes, 26 June). There are increasing numbers of young people (and their families) damaged by drugs. It's......

Our Hooligans Are Worst

From Michael Henderson Sir: If Rod Liddle (English hooligans are pussycats', 26 June) genuinely believes that English football fans are no worse than those in other European......

Darcy And Devonshire

From CA Latimer Sir: It seems unlikely that Chatsworth could have been Jane Austen's inspiration for Pemberley (Life and Letters. 26 June). It would have been impossible for Mr......

Hughes Done Good

From Peter Maddox Sir: While it has been good to see the return of Frank Keating (Sport, 26 June), one cannot let him get away with a false attribution. It was not the......

Going F—ing Native

From Mary Bruton Sir: Now that Iraq is safely sovereign, perhaps it is permissible to share this joke (from Texas) with your readers: two families moved from Pakistan to......

Keeping Stalin In The Dark

From Clarke Hayes Sir: It is true that the Russians were late in entering the war against the Japanese (Letters, 26 June) but the situation in the Pacific was not as simple as......