Overgilt Homeland
Sir: Woodrow Wyatt's Paean to Bophuthatswana (Diary 19, July) provides a glimmer of an alternative (confederacy?) to the world's demand for majority rule in a unitary South......
Illiberals
Sir: The Liberals' dirty tactics (James limes, 'The success of smelly Elly', 26 July), so startlingly undenounced by Dr David Owen, can misfire. In Surbiton we have a hung......
Letters New Fiction
Sir: I admire T. E. Utley more than somewhat, up to and including his essay on Mrs Thatcher (9 August). But he rejects too swiftly what he terms the 'illusion' of Thatcherism.......
Personal Proms
Sir: Low marks for homework on the Proms to Peter Phillips (Music, 26 July), who says they have 'no guiding themes'. The strong Italian element has not only been pointed up......
Ancient Islington
Sir: Auberon Waugh contrasts his Portu- guese Perequita 1981 with 'the sort of wine served at Tupperware parties in Islington by young married couples anxious to impress' (Wine......
Modern Yagistan
-Sir: Yag (Letters, 19 July) is Hindustani for 'rebel'. In the middle of the last century the populations of the Tangir and Darel valleys fought a bitter campaign against the......
Spg
Sir: I hope Andrew Brown's forthcoming book on the police is more accurate than his article ('Arming for the next riot', 19 July). The old SPG was not trained to come out of its......
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