8 MAY 2004, page 33

Osmosing To Britishness

From Stephen Mendes Sir: David Lovibond is wrong to claim that 'the burgeoning ethnic minorities cleave to their languages, dress, way of life and, most importantly, their......

Wile E., Not Bugs

From Paul Stock Sir: Peter Oborne is mistaken (Politics, 1 May). It is Wile E. Coyote who always succumbs to the force of gravity, not Bugs Bunny. Wile is a much more apposite......

Diminishing To Us All

From Joan Adamson Sir: Ross Clark (Globophobia, 17 April) asks whether the descendants of African slaves bringing lawsuits against Lloyd's of London and others would rather be......

In Praise Of Meps

From Dermot Scott Sir: Your leading article (It's about democracy'. 24 April) wrongly suggests that MEPs 'do not have the direct power to reject legislation that is enjoyed by......

A Tragic History

From Robert Duffield Sir: Jeremy Clarke's boy's maternal grandfather's belief that keeping goats tends to make people either cynical or pugnacious certainly has ancient roots......

Arithmetic Of Abortion

From Edward Collier Sir: Phil Wyness (Letters, 1 May) writes that 'since the introduction of the Abortion Law Reform Act of 1967, the state has conspired in the destruction of......

Mixed-up Lingo

From J.M.E. Took Sir: Paul Johnson (And another thing, 17 April) has got his lingo mixed up. *Go and take a shufti' belonged to the army in Egypt, never in India, where one went......