Underclothes

Sir: I note that Jaspistos (28 January) relished R. Reymond's washing lines. Perhaps your readers would like the quat- rain in full: Daily she came from Bromley to the City,......

Curiously Unaware

Sir: Poor old Paul Johnson (The media, 21 J anuary) misses the point about Viz, the adult' comic. It is satire. In fact, all the cartoon strips to which he so painstakingly......

Mr Johnson Contends That The Existence Of A Magazine Like

Brain Damage 'suggests that the Cassandras were right when they predicted in the 1960s that scrapping the !tiles would end not in enhanced liberty but In moral chaos'. However,......

Stern Rebuke

Sir: I was fascinated to read the extracts from the interview Nicholas Bethel! had in 1977 with Yitzak Shamir, present Prime Minister of Israel (`Sharp methods...', 28 January).......

Rocky Too

Sir: Noel Malcolm (4 February) is a little rocky on his reporting of our 'Death on the Rock' programme and the subsequent Windlesham/Rampton Report. We did not conclude that the......

Bad Bish

Sir: My six-year-old son regarded with scorn the cover showing flying chess pieces (28 January). He pointed out that as the missile was going straight ahead, it should have been......

A Dictionary Of Cant

VIRTUE Virtue is not strictly a cant word, but its absence from public de- bate is worth mentioning, as words, like people, can leave absences bigger than their presence ever......