Marx's Niggers

Sir: It is ironic that the word 'nigger', employed as a term of abuse (Letters, 30 June), was a favourite of both Marx and Engels — the mentors of many of those who have turned......

Younger Fogey

Sir: John Wain was not the first to use the term `Young Fogey' (Letters, 26 May). Dornford Yates's Maiden Stakes, published in 1928, opens with Adam Boleyn, wounded 12 years......

Letters

Farm reply Sir: It is not surprising that Enoch Powell (Books, 9 June) is attracted by the author's puritanism in Richard Body's latest book Farming in the Clouds. However,......

Exact Figures

Sir: Teddy Taylor (`Finding a Euro-stance', 26 May) uses figures given in Hansard to substantiate a claim that Britain's GDP is £10,500 million lower than it would have been if......

Fine Distinction

Sir: Perhaps Nicholas Coleridge (Diary, 23 June) would explain to us the difference between pilfering notepaper, blotting paper etc and shoplifting. A week ago a man in Cornwall......

James Agate

Sir: I have been commissioned to write the life of the late James Agate, drama critic and essayist, and would be grateful indeed to hear from anyone with personal memories of......

Soprano Nero

Sir: How nice to hear from a member of the cast of the epoch-making Oxford Poppea of 1927 (Letters, 23 June). But I didn't write that I wanted Nero to be sung by a woman: I......