Defending Ruskin
From Mr Bernard Dunstan Sir: It would be a great pity if anyone were to be put off reading Tim Hilton's Ruskin by Philip Hensher's review (Arts, 11 March). Hensher seems fixated......
Taxi-metres
From Dr L. C. Laming RNVR (ret'd) Sir: I am indebted to Mr Evan Williams (Letters, 11 March) for drawing my atten- tion to the preposterous claim by Jaspistos that there are no......
God Or Conscience?
From Mr Giles Wardle Sir: Messrs FitzGerald and Massie-Blom- field ask, 'Can a godless society be sur- prised when some of its members behave in a godless way?' (Letters, 11......
A To B Blues
From Verity Kalcev Sir: Dot Wordsworth wonders about the use of 'customer' instead of 'passenger' by rail companies (Mind your language, 11 March). It's not new: British Rail......
From Sir Ludovic Kennedy Sir: Charles Fitzgerald Thinks I Am
clever to be an atheist. Not so, but at least honest in declining to pay lip-service to a creed I can- not subscribe to. He says he misses 'the guid- ance from above — the......
Archer's Revenge
From Mr John Owen Sir: 1 was interested to see that recent stressful events have had no effect on Jef- frey Archer's literary skill; his Diary (11 March) was a real page-turner.......
The Bombing Of 'journalists'
From Ann Cooper Sir: Charles Glass ('When it's OK to kill a hack', 5 February) infers a position that the Committee to Protect Journalists never took: namely, that because CPJ......