Plodspeak
Sir: Re Auberon Waugh's complaints (Another voice, 17 December), another for your list of ridiculous statements (from Det Chief Supt McFadden, head of Surrey CID, after the......
Metre Reading
Sir: L. K. Lawler is right (Letters, 17 December): in the classical tongues on the one hand, quantity rules, but it's stress that you work to in writing in English. (Mostly —......
Letters
A right mess Sir: Anthony Barnett writes ('Why Britain is no democracy', 17 December) that I ought to 're-sit my GCSE' for having stated that parts of our constitution can be......
Taxonomy
Sir: P. J. Kavanagh's vivid description of the sudden arrival of a flock of mixed finches (Life and letters, 10 December) intrigued me; much the same has happened here (North......
Foot Fault
Sir: I am a subscriber to the London Review of Books. In order to get away from Paul Foot I have also become a subscriber to The Spectator. Whom do I now find in The Spectator......
Body Of Belief
Sir: Myles Harris must do more than repeat misleading clichés (`Out of the body', 10 December). Certainly, Einstein never accepted the uncertainty principle but it's wrong to......