Carnforth Canard
Sir: Vitali Vitaliev's article (The Russians are not coming', 26 August) struck a chord. Five years ago, I first visited Carnforth by train. The station was a picture of unre-......
Rain-spotter
Sir: Gavin Stamp's memory is playing him false (Arts, 26 August). Edward Watkin had nothing to do with the construction of the railway between Blackfriars and Far- ringdon. It......
Please Say Sorry
Sir: Rupert Christiansen's article (Arts, 9 September) is so peppered with errors of fact that it would consume many column inches to correct. Your readers will doubt- less have......
Sir: I Think You Misunderstand The Nature Of The News
of the World. Of course such papers have always sold sex by disapproving of it. But most of the editors and their underlings share a genuine disapproval of sexual liberty. To be......
Sir: Isn't It True That The British Are Just Hope-
lessly bad at sex? Half the population thinks it is naughty but nice (an adolescent view), and the other half thinks it is a loathsome disease, caught at puberty (the puritan......
Letters Sex And The British
Sir: Your leading article (9 September) cas- tigates the News of the World over our cov- erage of the Charterhouse head's associa- tion with a prostitute. Can I point out that......
Tit For That
Sir: Kingsley Amis is right (Letters, 9 September) to scorn those who can't han- dle a naughty sound, even when it appears only as a syllable of a longer word with quite other......
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