16 APRIL 1994, page 30

Expert Analysis

Sir: Buggery is penetration by the penis of the anus. With respect to Simon Heifer (Politics, 9 April), it is 'legal' for nobody, of whatever age or sex, in public or in......

Sir: Paul Johnson (and Another Thing, 9 April) Wants...

for a name for his new enterprise. How about the British Neanderthal Party? D.I. Barker Purton House, Nr Swindon, Wiltshire......

Yes, We Dare

Sir: Alasdair Palmer (`The case of the van- ishing witnesses', 26 March) tells us that `more than 300 cases have collapsed over the past two years because of successful......

Redeeming Qualities

Sir: I really must protest at Robert Harris's savage attack on John Patten (Diary, 2 April). The article by Patten which inspired the attack contained a well argued and entirely......

Party Names

Sir: Pace Simon Heifer (2 April), there already is a Forza Inghilterra — it's called the UK Independence Party. I did a Berlus- coni when I founded it, the only difference being......

Spy In The Sky

Sir: After his chat with Pierre Marion at the Café Fiore ('When spies mean business', 9 April), Alasdair Palmer reports his claim that 'we used to bug Air France'. He does not,......

Without Distinction

Sir: Why does Auberon Waugh (Another voice, 2 April) suppose that bad manners are the monopoly of what he patronisingly describes as 'the lower classes'? He should ponder the......

Come On Down

Sir: Could I suggest that Dr Noel Malcolm (Letters, 9 April) tours Bosnia soon, to add a little contemporary human understanding to his peerless academic knowledge of that......

A Rare Spirit

Sir: I must take issue with Simon Heifer on how he treats my home MP, Sir Nicholas Fairbairn (Politics, 9 April). Anyone who has had the pleasure of this man's company would not......

Legal Nicety

Sir: It has not yet been established that to refer to someone as a lawyer brings that individual into hatred, ridicule or contempt or lowers him in the estimation of right-......