Anecdotes
Anecdotes {| Sir: I am editing the Oxford Book Of Military Anecdotes, one of those books which will eventually annoy all its readers by omitting each of their favourite stories......
Fitzgerald's Past
Fitzgerald's past Sir: How come that your experienced contributor, Richard West, writing from Dublin, could get so many things wrong'? He has really run off the rails in his'......
No Squire
Letters No squire Sir: We were interested to read Peregrine Worsthorne's thoughts (Diary, 25 August) on ways in which Wivenhoe residents might contain some of the nuisances......
Peking And China
Peking and China Sir: Without wanting to be pedantic, I should like to say that Geoffrey Wheat, croft seems to me essentially right about the Peking 'Beijing' issue despite MiiS......
Local Bores
Local bores Sir: Peter Levi could not be more mistaken in his belief that 'local news is the only interesting and deeply penetrating kind' (Television, 25 August). Regional......
De Mortuis
De mortuis Sir: It is true that, before publishing the faults of famous people, writers often wait for them to die (Letters. 21 July). But this is surely not so much for fear......
South Yorkshife
South Yofkshife Sir: As Richard West admires the wishes of Tykes to preserve their sense of local identity (Arthur's seat', 25 August), I was dismayed that he kept referring to......
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