7 APRIL 1984, page 21

Ken — The People's Choice?

Sir: The full-page advertisement from the GLC (17 March), which invites us to 'say no to no say in who runs London', is surely the product of a well-developed sense of the......

Church Macintoshes

Sir: As one who does not wish to see the severely limited role permitted to women in the RC liturgy subjected to any further restrictions, could I ask James Michie to c larify......

Not Alone

Sir: P. J. Kavanagh is right (Postscript, 31 March) to praise Channel 4 but less right to suggest that nobody else has. My successor at the Observer, Julian Barnes, has been......

Pleasing Everyone

Sir: In your Notes (Pleasing the Greeks', 31 March) you refer to the departmental view of the Foreign Office in 1941 that a decision should be made to return the Parthenon......

Wingate ' S View Sir: If Byron Farwell, Whoever He Is,...

to say in a book that Orde Wingate w as a sour religious maniac with a grossly inflated reputation who neither admired nor trusted the Gurkhas, he merely aligns himself with the......

Torvill And Dean

Sir: Your predecessor Alexander Chancellor, in his new guise as TV critic (Television, 31 March) quotes Ludovic Kennedy's remark, 'When you've seen one skater, you've really......

Letters

A dreadful place Sir: Miss Tisdall's sentence is brutal, savage, horrific, and will mark her for life, according to the Press. It probably will. I spent three and a half years......