Transports Of Delight
Sir: I would have taken Andrew Neil’s criticism of our transport system (‘Our transport system is a joke’, 10 May) more seriously had it not been so disingenuous. I understand......
Have A Heart
Sir: At the risk of upsetting a fellow Oxonian’s sensibilities, Paul Johnson (And another thing, 10 May) seems to be mistaken in writing about the heart of Le Roi Soleil (or at......
Byrd Song
Sir: Peter Phillips mentions (Arts, 3 May) hearing Byrd’s Mass for Four Voices in the unlikely setting of Lusaka, Zambia. I too have a happy memory of hearing a Byrd Mass, in......
War Of Words
Sir: Sorry, Anthony Horowitz (Letters, 10 May), but Foyle’s War often contained linguistic anachronisms. Recent examples include ‘to loan a book’, ‘peek’, ‘to fill out a......
To Too Far
Sir: Could you get Dot Wordsworth to devote a column to prepositions, and in particular, the use, or rather misuse, of ‘to’. Sky Sports and the BBC have used ‘defeat to’, rather......
No Sin Of Omission
Sir: Jonathan Mirsky (Books, 10 May) quotes Tony Judt stating that Arthur Koestler was ‘silent’ on ‘the famines, the expropriations, the wholesale deportations of peoples......
Guard Duty
Sir: I have to advise Leonard Allen (Letters, 10 May) that his defence of what he refers to as ‘The Guards’ is misplaced. The Brigade of Guards and Household Cavalry have fought......
New Depths
Sir: Bernard Levin memorably described Harold Wilson as ‘the worst British Prime Minister since Lord North’. If he was alive today, I am sure that he would revise his judgment,......
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