Sir: I Enjoyed Vicki Woods's Article On The Press's...
with sex last week. With the exception of the Independent, most newspapers show an amusing double stan- dard about male and female sexual topics. When a book of mine, The Limits......
Wrong Wife
Sir: It would appear that E.M. Forster is too subtle for Buruma as well as Edward Said (. . . And oriental ostriches, 30 March). Fielding did not marry Miss Quested but Mrs......
Parlour Pranks
Sir: In your review of the Andrew Roberts biography of Lord Halifax (Books, 23 March), the 'risque ditty' (sung by the Western Brothers, and vei ) popular about 1938) was the......
The Naughty Bits
Sir: I did not respond to the first attack made on my drawings in the Independent by Vicki Woods last September. although it combined ignorance of their content with a libellous......
Busman's Holiday
Sir: In a window at Victoria Coach Station there is a large sign which reads: 'Wallace Arnold. More choice than ever before. Far and away the best coach holidays.' I wonder if......
Letters
Precious borrowing Sir: What a delight it is to see my old friend Christopher Fildes endorse, and in public (City and Suburban, 6 April), a rela- tionship he has privately......
Accent Abuse
Sir: Can any reader answer the question why, when listening to residents of South Ronaldsay in television interviews, we only ever hear the accents of southern England and never......
Kindly Godfather
Sir: Amongst other mistakes in Denis Winter's Haig's Command picked up by Richard Lamb in his recent review (Books, 30 March) was that Eric Geddes was a fierce critic of my......
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