6 JANUARY 1990, page 22

Gay The Gorilla

Sir: I write in defence of pigs and their sexual inclinations. According to Dr Ahmed quoted in Jane Kelly's piece on the coming Islamification of Ireland, 'it has proven that......

Tanks Very Much

Sir: Michael Trend says he has consulted many in the armaments industry before deciding whether Britain still needs or can support its own tank industry (The fog of peace', 9......

Letters Czech Bravery?

Sir: With jaundiced eye I observe the recent upheavals in Czechoslavakia. It is almost 20 years to the day when, in a group of Polish students, I descended into a beer cellar of......

Beef, Beef And Beef

Sir: Your correspondent Richard Whitting- ton (Letters, 16 December) refers to 'Eli- zabeth David's promotion of the Harrods recipe' for dry-spiced beef. Could he be a little......

Over-optimistic

Sir: Anthony Blond, in his review of Livia Svevo's memoir of her husband (23/30 December), asserts with some optimism that 'the Italians successfully avoided deliv- ery of their......