4 AUGUST 2001, page 27

Aggers Aggrieved

From Mr Jonathan Agnew Sir: I would like to respond to Peter Oborne's article about Test Match Special ('Special pleading', 28 July), and his disparaging observations about me......

Dealing With The Davids

From Mr Paul Shallard Sir: Am I missing the point about the nuclear threat to the USA? The 'nuclear deterrent' seems to have worked by dint of the mutual fear of destruction it......

In Defence Of Florence

From Mr Peter Macdonald Sir: Regarding James Delingpole's television criticism (Arts, 21 July): the BBC programme Reputations about Florence Nightingale was a typical hatchet......

Oxbridge Must Cost More

From Mr Keith Wedmore Sir: Are we really to watch the decline and collapse of Oxford and Cambridge without lifting a finger (`Eviscerating Oxford', 14 July)? The silence of your......

Dead Men Don't Watch Telly

From Mr John Woodward Sir: Your diarist Charles Moore (28 July) will find that sending a letter of explanation to the television licensing authorities will not stop them......