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Parzzzifal

From Mr Matthew Richards Sir: If Michael Henderson really thinks that audiences in New York are so much worse than their London counterparts (Arts, 28 October), he should read......

My Words

From Mr Alistair Horne Sir: D.J. Taylor's article CA true ghost story', 21 October) leaves me wondering whether to laugh or howl. It has to be one of the season's feats of......

Loyal To Russia

From Mr Oleg Gordievsky Sir: Mr Nick Djivanovic (Letters, 11 November), who lives in the Bahamas, apparently feels sympathy with the present KGB-led regime in Russia, which is......

Market Extremes

From Mr Edward Pearce Sir: Surely Tony Benn (Books, 21 October) is wrong and Andrew Roberts (Letters, 4 November) wronger. The truth is surely this: the economy was retrieved by......

Disloyal To 'baba'

From Mr David Gilmour Sir: If an elderly woman requests a quiet burial in Iona, most of us would regard it as disloyal if her son and her nephew cremat- ed her with a band and......