Not So Enlightened
From Professor Peter Geach Sir: According to Harry Mount (Books, 31 May), Anthony Grayling thinks that science always wins as it did in the days of the Enlightenment. Among the......
What A Lovely War!
From Mr Allan Massie Sir: Robert Macfarlane (Books, 7 June) quotes Bill Bryson as saying that J.B.S. Haldane 'perhaps uniquely among human beings .. found the first world war "a......
Guardsman Bush
From Mr John Wilcock Sir: Taki's wearisome repetition of 'draft dodger' to preface our last president's name is more than a little tired. Why does he not apply the same epithet......
Music Review
From Mr Esteban Buch Sir: Philip Hensher's review (24 May) of my book Beethoven's Ninth: A Political History is not only excessive but also too inaccurate to be taken as the......
Travelling Incognito
From Mr Gordon Rees Sir: Stanley Baldwin was another prime minister who regularly used public transport (Letters, 7 June). Taking the train to his Bewdley constituency one......
Winston's Offer To France
From Mrs Laura Garratt Sir: Lord Deramore (Letters, 7 June) says in criticising John Major that we must be thankful that he was not prime minister in 1940. I seem to recall that......
The Power Of Archer's Pen
From Mr John O'Byrne Sir: I wouldn't necessarily agree with you that the author of such works as Kane and Abel and A Quiver Full of Arrows is a bad writer (Leading article, 7......
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