Letters Lordly Censorship
Sir: Most people will by now be aware what motivates a top Tory like Lord Gilmour to resent my work on British 20th-century his- tory (Letters, 20/27 December). Now he denounces......
Limerick Completed
Sir: I am reluctant to take issue with such an eminent fellow Antipodean as Mr Humphries (Diary, 20/27 December), but I must point out that the 'unfinished' limer- ick which he......
Big Bangs
Sir: May I be pedantic and correct Mr Simon Hoggart's use of the phrase 'shag- ging like a belt-fed wombat'(Television, 20/27 December). In fact he correct military idiom is `to......
Poetic Licence
Sir: It apparently takes one 'poet' to spot another CA not very Franco account', 3 January.) In As I Walked Out One Midsum- mer Morning, Laurie Lee's charming evoca- tion of his......
Waste Of Space
Sir: I've never heard of Sion Simon (`Turn- coats, traitors, cowards', 20/27 December), but he's obviously made little progress beyond elementary lessons in diatribe. Frankly,......
Reals Of Fantasy
Sir: This old hound has sat mum for months through Paul Johnson's baroque barkings over the Aitken and Hamilton cases. But every dog must have his day and Paul almost got......
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