Shoes V. Seneca
From Mr David Watkins Sir: It is disappointing that no reviewer of Alain de Botton's The Consolations of Phi- losophy (Books, 1 April) has quoted Lord Macaulay's apposite words:......
A Party Postponed
From Mr David Nicholls Sir: In the 'special issue' of 1 April, among the many articles lauding England and all things English there appeared references to the fact that......
Sheilas In Shock
From Mr Richard Burnett Sir: When I read the article 'Mongrel b*st*rds (1 April) I couldn't help wondering about the immobility of the ladies pictured beneath Sir Leslie......
Haig's Pyrrhic Victories
From Mr Clive Wright Sir: In his review of My Father's Son: the Memoirs of Earl Haig (Books, S April), Philip Warner writes that the first Earl Haig won the battles of the Somme......
Big-hearted Annan
From Lord Thomas of Swynnerton Sir: I have only just seen Paul Johnson's article about Noel Annan (And another thing, 25 March). In the good old days of England, to whose......
Patriotic Games
From Mr Marcus Pitcaith4) Sir: Edward Heathcoat Amory (Patriot games', 8 April) will have to live with the fact that, in the cases of the Scottish War of Independence and the......
A Tax On Enterprise
From Manuella Phillips Sir: In your article 'Labour loves the fat cats' (8 April) you mention an 'arcane change to National Insurance rules last year which made it much more......
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