8 DECEMBER 1984, page 26

Gordon

Gordon Sir: As an old fogey may I resurrect an old story about Gordon [see p.23], perhaps not known to your young fogey readers. In the days when the Sudan was a 'Country of......

Inconsistent

Inconsistent Sir: Taki is entitled to his views (High life, I December) on the interview with him carried in the Sunda y' Times, although many who know him thought that it was......

Bad Taste

Bad taste Sir: Until now, when in Central Europe attention was drawn, with or without bias, to some public figure's Jewish origin, one was able to point out that such......

Offensive Twaddle

Offensive twaddle Sir: I have written at far too great a length [over 1,()()( words. Ed.] to hope for the publication of this letter in even edited form, but I am aware of being......

Nature Imitates Art

Nature imitates art Sir: It has been pointed out that the Bishop of Durham's story about the two miners' sons who had to share a single pair of boots first appeared in a novel......

Aids

Letters Aids Sir: As Centrepiece (I December) seems to be addressed to me, may I reply'? Would that Thornhill Square were in Avilion, but alas it is in the socialist republic of......