Wrong Sex
Sir: Michael Heath's 'amusing cover' on your 10 October issue has indeed been a conversation piece. I asked the man in my life, 'Why are all the images used to depict sex and......
The Mysteries Of Recall
Sir: To return to that line from Phedre, Simon Gray energetically reminds us that it comes from a play and provides an admirable sketch of the dramatic context (Letters, 10......
Germany's Debt
Sir: Mr von Reimann is asking for justice for the Prussians who for the most part fled before the advancing Russian armies (Let- ters, 10 October). He might reflect on the fact......
Good Karma
Sir: Although I have been only recently persuaded of the religious advantages of Hinduism, I cannot be alone in concluding that in my next life a reincarnation as David......
Wheeler-dealer
Sir: Attending my first Conservative party conference in Bournemouth last week, I was more than a little disappointed to find that my car, which was parked in the Stakis Hotel......
Sullied Scribes
Sir: 'Absolute lack of power corrupts abso- lutely ... ' (Pierre Trudeau's comment on a Canadian journalist). Practitioners of today's investigative jour- nalism get out of......
The Uses Of Literacy
Sir: How ungrateful of my former 'brother officer', Nicholas Lunt (Letters, 3 Octo- ber), to imply that I am, or was, illiterate. If he were to cast his mind back, he might......
Letters Acute Embarrassment
Sir: Ian Ousby is right to reprove me for allowing the illiteracy `marechale' to appear in The First World War, which he reviewed last week (Books, 10 October). He is wrong,......
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