Our Successful Railways
From Adrian Lyons Sir: Your leading article (7 January) suggested that railway operators are a cartel bent on exploiting their customers, but this is grossly unfair. Fares have......
How To Live
From Professor Robin Jacoby Sir: As a psychiatrist who has written reports in more than 30 homicide cases, I can wholeheartedly confirm Theodore Dalrymple’s thesis that the......
Misplaced Generosity
From Philip Pullman Sir: David Watkins (Letters, 7 January) invents an opinion that C.S. Lewis might have held about my books, if he’d been able to read them, and then chastises......
Alligator Hunt
From Pamela de Putron Sir: Dot Wordsworth will be pleased to know that the term ‘alligator pear’, the English substitution for the Aztec word ‘ahuacatl’ and Spanish ‘avocado’......
Dactylic Delights
From John Rattray Sir: Further to Grey Gowrie’s review (Books, 31 December), while the ‘Higgledy Piggledy’ form of comic verse may be of recent invention, the double dactylic is......
Missing The Buses
From Terry Muzzell Sir: On the Buses may well have been an ‘appalling, witless comedy’ (‘Celebrity squares’, 7 January), but did Rod Liddle ever watch it? The part of Blakey was......
Wanted, Subsidised Housing
From Shaun Spiers Sir: Simon Nixon has got it wrong. Scrapping the Green Belt and covering it in new homes won’t solve the nation’s housing problems (‘No bubble, no slump’, 31......
From Frances Spurrier
Sir: Many people who struggle with deprivation do not commit murder. But it is not only those who inhabit dark hallways who have forgotten how to live. In our society divorce is......
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