Pommy Arrogance

Sir: It may interest Ms Wordsworth (Mind your language, 7 October) to know that not every person who reads Trollope has also read the Bible, speaks French and knows when......

Shoddy Work

Sir: It was interesting to read the account by Martin Vander Weyer (`Trains and boats and planes ... ', 28 October) of cross- Channel ferries. My own, and only, experi- ence was......

No Need To Apologise

Sir: Studying Heath's Alice in Wonderland cartoon (Portrait of the week, 28 October), I wondered, not for the first time, why political cartoonists, when drawing inspira- tion......

Emotionally Unsound

Sir: It would not be difficult to take issue, at length and in detail, with almost everything Alexander Waugh has to say in his extraor- dinary piece (Arts, 14 October). To......

Jam, Not God, Today

Sir: Jenny McCartney's article connecting the decline of churchgoing with the growth of fitness clubs (`Forgive us our dietary trespasses', 28 October) came to mind last Sunday......

Johnson Out

Sir: Look, I don't buy The Spectator to read socialist tosh. Get rid of mutton-head John- son! Professor H.M Currie 25 West Street Yarm, Cleveland It is unclear whether this is......