14 MARCH 1992, page 27

Letters Battle Of All Mothers

Sir: Clive James is the perfect export refer- ence here (`Let my people stay', 7 March). Once sent overseas, the product remains forever stable. Some miracle of technology keeps......

Between Friends

Sir: Your weekly column of 'crass, illiterate, ignorant etc.' communications from public bodies is elegantly juxtaposed by the felici- ties of gymnastic syntax emanating, almost......

Deliberate Error

Sir: One of the few constants in a changing world is the eerie capacity of the British press to Get It Wrong. What I take to be a woman journalist, Colin Welch, repeats (Books,......

Bring Back Ducking

Sir: Africa has something to offer to the British debate on 'the law and order card' (Politics, 15 February). In the 1970s I was working among the Afar in Ethiopia and noticed......