9 OCTOBER 2004, page 36

Is The Right Wrong?

From P.G. Urben Sir: Is Michael Gove a Conservative in a real sense (Tower to the people', 2 October)? Conservatives form their own judgments; they do not have Great Helmsmen,......

From Edward Collier Sir: It Causes Me Distress When Michael

Gove, and other apparently thinking Conservatives, prefer Bush over Kerry on the basis that Bush remains steadfast while Kerry changes his mind. Bush is incapable of changing......

From Graham Baker Sir: Peter Hitchens's Penetrating And...

of the Tory party's current dismal state ('The problem, not the solution', 2 October) is further evidence that it is now among the disaffected Right that the really profound......

From Stephen Senn

Sir: According to Mark Steyn (Private enterprise', 2 October) Britons and Canadians have a 'miserable government health service'. That may be so, but les miserables are doing......

From Anthony G. Brown Sir: I Hesitate To Detract In

any way from Mark Steyn's fighting the good fight, but here in Texas the short and sharp method he supposes we would apply to unruly Muslim youth ('reach in his glove box and......

From Jon Livesey Sir: Oliver Letwin (back Off, Gordon', 2

October) is correct to identify the growth of the Civil Service and the increase in stealth taxes as a serious economic problem, but he underestimates the difficulty of dealing......