Tony And The Aztecs
From Sebastian Shakespeare Sir: Theodore Dalrymple notes that Jacques Chirac wrote an introduction to a catalogue of Ecuadorean baroque religious sculpture (`Escape from......
From Professor Robin Jacoby Sir: Theodore Dalrymple's...
smacks of Daniel going blindfold into the lions' den. The social and moral degeneration he so accurately describes in Britain is no less, as he virtually admits, on the other......
Oy Vay!
From Philip Hensher Sir: Benedict le Vay is surely being rather hard on Lynne Truss's English (Pluck Truss and grieve', 10 January), and the examples he chooses of her bad......
From Dr Madsen Pirie Sir: Lynne Truss Has Done Grammar
a great service by helping people to use it properly in a living, changing language. Benedict le Vay is wrong in every example he cites of the alleged grammatical errors of......
Regime Of Repression
From Oleg Gordievsky Sir: The discovery I have made in Britain is that many academics wear pink glasses. Paul Robinson claims, The government of Vladimir Putin is probably the......
Black Watch
From Robert Peston Sir: I was mildly surprised by the complaint of my old friend Stephen Glover that the Sun day Telegraph has not written enough about the travails of Hollinger......