Learning Worn Lightly
From Mr Bruce McDougall Sir: Poor old Paul Johnson (And another thing, 1 July). He thinks that people are less intelligent than they used to be. To Prove his point, he refers to......
Split Personality
From Mr James Young Sir: Here's a rum thing. In the 1999 edition of Who's Who, the entry immediately above Tony Blair's is that of one 'Sir Alastair Campbell Blair'. What can......
What Hopkins Meant
From Mr Richard Orders Sir: Bruce Anderson's casual reference to the initial words of the opening line of Ger- ard Manley Hopkins's great sonnet (Poli- tics, 10 June) is both a......
Proof Positive
From Mr Ross Clark Sir: Of course Geoff Boycott is innocent ('He did not bat her', 8 July). The prosecu- tion alleged that he got in 20 blows, all at once. If Boycott had really......
Is Not A Patron. . . ?
From Judith Bingham Sir: Peter Phillips (Arts, 8 July) is right to point out the merits of Sir William Glock as well as his notorious downside. But in many ways he was no......
War And Pc
From Mr John Hughes-Wilson Sir: While I fully anticipated the well-co- ordinated wails of protest from some of the 'Pardons' brigade, furious that someone has LETTERS at last......
Rafish Description
From Mr David Watkins Sir: It seems that Dot Wordsworth (Mind your language, 8 July) is younger than I unthinkingly assumed, else she would have immediately picked up the New......
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