16 NOVEMBER 1996, page 34

Letters Stating The Facts

Sir: May I join Richard Lamb (Letters, 2 November) in demolishing the ill-informed and wrong-headed views of Andrew Roberts about the German resistance (Danger! new myth ahead',......

Sir: Tom Sutcliffe Says That I Reprimanded Anne Atkins For

her comments about the service for the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement at Southwark Cathedral. As a matter of fact, my concern was with the BBC, not with Mrs Atkins. She used......

Reviewer Rebuked

Sir: One hesitates to criticise a critic — it is so easy to appear churlish — but I suggest that Philip Hensher, one of your two lead book reviewers, is guilty either of......

Dangerous Ignorance

Sir: The Irish language is not 'a patois' (Leader, 9 November) because a patois is defined as 'having no literary status'. The earliest manuscripts in Irish go back at least to......

Biblical Authority

Sir: Tom Sutcliffe illustrates well (The modern Mary Magdalene', 9 November) the danger of rejecting biblical authority in matters of faith and morals. He is right to assert......