9 FEBRUARY 2002, page 33

Beware The Zealots

From Mr Sam Talbot Rice Sir: I fully understand Theo Hobson's frustrations with the Church of England ('Losing our religion', 2 February) and the cow ardly way some of its......

Hang On To Life

From Mr Sam Schulman Sir: Andrew Gimson's expert ('In praise of the health service', 2 February) chose an odd measurement to use when comparing British and US standards for......

Tribal Matters

From Veronica Bellers Sir: Boris Johnson's article (Slack Africa, white guilt', 2 February) encourages those of us whose families served colonial Africa with dedication and......

From Mr John Papworth Sir: Boris Johnson Has Missed The

obvious point about Africa. It has always been more inimical to human settlement than almost any other part of the world, because of its vastness, remoteness, its climatic......

Baffling Philosophy

From Mr Laurence Goldstein Sir: Edward Smith (Letters, 26 January) cites an amusing but apocryphal attribution to Wittgenstein to the effect that, in the beginning, after God......

Australian Accounts

From Mr Peter Henderson Sir: Peter Oborne ('How Labour courted the money men', 26 January) might be interested to know that the accountancy firm Arthur Andersen is not just......

Moses And His Horn

From Mr Patrick Motile Sir: You illustrate your review of the exhibition of mediaeval sculpture on page 40 (Arts, 2 February) with a figure which is undoubtedly Moses, not 'an......