5 JUNE 2004, page 32

Smacks Are Uncivilised

From Virginia Ironside Sir: Rachel Johnson's article ('Bum rap pinned on parents', 29 May) has exactly the same ring to it as the kind written not so many years ago arguing that......

No Takeover At The Iod

From Christopher Beale Sir: Peter Oborne's article on the Institute of Directors CA nasty plot in Pall Mall', 29 May) either completely misunderstands or wilfully distorts the......

Bush And The Jewish Vote

From Joseph Palley Sir: While I share Sir Crispin Tickell's distaste for George Bush's foreign policy ('The West is like the Great Satan', 22 May), he is wrong to blame Bush's......

Inventing Islamofascism

From Stephen Schwartz Sir: In his review of Robert 0. Paxton's Anatomy of Fascism (Books, 22 May) Ian Garrick Mason quite incorrectly ascribes invention of the 'colourful'......

Shell Life

From &my Knight Bruce Sir: I am writing the history of Timothy the Powderham Castle tortoise, who died recently at the age of 160. Would any of your readers who knew him, or......