6 SEPTEMBER 1986, page 20

Hidden Tyrant

Sir: I taught in Australia for a period roughly corresponding to the premiership of Whitlam and, I must say, my class of ten-year-olds there did not need then the help of his......

Porno-dramaturge

Sir: I see that Richard West names Ken- neth Tynan (`Brum Bruin', 30 August), the `porno-dramaturge', as being with others responsible in the swinging Sixties for the present......

Cut Into Illiteracy

Sir: Please don't cut or sub me into illiteracy and make me seem to have written of 'Harold Robbins, whose The Storyteller shows' this, that and the other (Books, 23 August).......

Fowler The Redecorator

Sir: With reference to Gavin Stamp's review of John Cornforth's Inspiration of The Past (9 August) I would just like to correct some of the criticism aimed at John Fowler.......

Proud Lunacy

Sir: Mr Charles Moore's criticism of the Barbican (Diary, 9 August) is welcome. May I suggest that you make a regular feature of it — a sort of agony column about the ghastly......

Ferry Swots

Sir: I can sympathise with Auberon Waugh in his experience on board a cross-Channel ferry (Another voice, 30 August). I have for some time maintained that there must exist a......

Sir: What Can Richard West Mean In His Claim That

Spaghetti Junction was 'the worst cock-up in British civil engineering history, worse than the Forth Bridge'? Both Forth Bridges are still standing. Could he be referring to the......

Letters Dirty Tactics

Sir: I do not know Audrey Parry who wrote to you (16 August) about the wicked Liberals in Surbiton, nor do I know the Liberals there, but I warmly admire them if, as Ms Parry......