Don’t Blame Davis
From Robin Harris Sir: My old friend Bruce Anderson doubtless wishes to do his friends in the Notting Hill set some good by blaming the continued poor Conservative showing upon......
From Alistair Cooke Sir: It Is A Pity That Bruce
Anderson’s final flourish did not embody accurately the chilling image of ‘the feathers of death’. An anonymous seaman writing to tell Queen Elizabeth I of his eagerness to lay......
Towards A New Europe
From Denis MacShane MP Sir: I read with interest Peter Jones’s argument that as ‘tribalism finished Rome it will finish Brussels too’ (Ancient & modern, 1 January). As an......
Tsunami Silence
From Ian Barber Sir: Stephen Glover’s glib dismissal of the three-minute silence for victims of the Asian tsunami was a study in Eurosceptic inaccuracy (Media studies, 8......
Made In China
From Marguerite Maddox Sir: By chance I read Martin Vander Weyer’s article on the impotence of China as a putative superpower (‘China won’t be a superpower’, 8 January) on the......
Blunkett’s Parenting Advice
From Carol Cooper Sir: Victor Black’s letter (1 January) referring to David Blunkett’s disgraceful manipulation of his so-called parental rights over William reminded me of an......
Bringing Lindsay To Book
From Tom Sutcliffe Sir: Paul Sutton, editor of Lindsay Anderson’s Diaries , replied to my review by suggesting I had invented a letter from Lindsay to him (Letters, 18/25......
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