7 JANUARY 2006, page 17

More Women Mps, Please

From Amber Rudd Sir: Rod Liddle’s article on women candidates in the Conservative party contains an irritating and often repeated inaccuracy. (‘Let’s not forget the weirdos and......

Is ‘belief’ Beneficial?

From Dr John Stoneman Sir: I have considerable regard for Mark Steyn’s views on the world. However, I fear he has been rather confused in his article on rationality in your......

Belt Up

From Michael Simons Sir: Simon Nixon trivialises Green Belt legislation to a reckless degree (‘No bubble, no slump’, 31 December). Far from benefiting a mere handful of......

America Fair

From G.E. French Sir: What a lovely piece of American nostalgia by Geoffrey Wheatcroft (‘God Bless America, not Bush’, 17/24 December). I too had, and still have, that......

Slow Bus To Swindon

From Philip French Sir: In his review of Stephen Fry’s The Ode Less Travelled (Books, 31 December) Grey Gowrie recalls an apparently accidental piece of verse he found in a......

Lewis Vs Pullman

From David Watkins Sir: Further to Caroline Moore’s spirited defence of C.S. Lewis (‘War of the worlds’, 17/24 December): however wrong-headed Lewis may have been as a moralist,......

Eye And I

From Christopher Booker Sir: As a keen student of the ever-growing mythology surrounding the origins of Private Eye , I must congratulate Patrick Marnham for his novel......