Sponger Seeks Help
Sir: We have all heard the stereotype cast upon students: lazy, loutish and left-wing. Both students (of which I am one) and the general public can accept or reject this popular......
Welsh Japes
Sir: It is really very naughty of two Welsh contributors to perpetrate subtle linguistic japes at the expense of your genial readers on the wrong side of Offa's Dyke (Letters,......
Sir: Fi Mclachlan (letters, 31 March) Feels She 'must...
object' to my describing sleeping rough as being a `voluntary activity' (Cardboard village', 10 March). Thomas Quinn joins in accusing me of a 'major inaccuracy' (Letters, 7......
Hard On Hardbacks
Sir: As a novelist and critic partly depen- dent on public lending right income, I deplore the new policy of Cambridgeshire libraries. In future, they will buy almost no......
Square Eyes And Breathing Sir: I Should Like To Take
issue with Paul Johnson (The media, 3 March) on his comparison between the television licence fee and the poll tax. The television licence fee is more like the now obsolete......
Suited
Sir: Have any other of your readers noticed the likeness between 'The Suits' and Gil- bert and George, and is this intentional? Barbara Dorf 11 Pembridge Villas, London W11......
Self-financing Dogs
Sir: Your dictionary of Cant (31 March) referred to the introduction of a compul- sory national dog registration scheme as an example of an abuse of the term 'self- financing'.......
Parachuting Revisited
Sir: Nowhere has Mr Wallace (Letters, 7 April) responded to the facts in my Specta- tor article which demonstrated that he exaggerated his parachuting exploits. I am suggesting......
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