Gender Bender
Sir: In his article 'Straight and narrow' (31 January) Leo McKinstry listed some outlandish examples of projects undertaken by the sexual discrimination industry. Perhaps I......
Portrait Of A President
From Richard Dean Sir: Philip Guston's retrospective exhibition at the Royal Academy certainly deserves all the nice things your critic says about it (Arts, 24 January), but he......
An Inducement To Learn
From Andrew Walters Sir: Freddie Sayers has missed two key differences between the UK and the US when it comes to expecting undergraduates to pay their own way through higher......
Funding Fiona
From Crawford Macdonald Sir: I won't be availing myself of Fiona Millar's invitation to send my children to join a war zone where a 'tough and inspiring head [is] determined to......
Smalls Defence
From Mick James Sir: Dot Wordsworth recently referred to *shreddies' as a slang term for underpants. When I joined the RAF in 1959, the term was already in common usage. It......
Neologistic Note
From Barry Cawdron Sir: Tom Livingstone inquires about the meaning of `hemiocentenary' (Letters, 31 January). My New English Dictionmy of March 1932 defines `Itemi' as a Greek......
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