Sir: In 'green Grows The Rousseau-o!' (12 August) James...

says we need someone to trace the intellectual genealogy of environmentalism back to the philo- sophers of the French Revolution. Surely what we need is someome to trace this......

Letters Animal Crackers

Sir: I am indebted to Mr Waugh (Another voice, 12 August) for clarifying my mind to the point of decision I am on the side of the animals. Responsibility devolves with power. As......

Sir: Miss Kaye (letters, 12 August) Says That It Is

now `naff to say 'common'. It always was. The word is 'vulgar'. Colin Haycraft Gerald Duckworth & Co The Old Piano Factory 43 Gloucester Crescent, London NW1......

Naff

Sir: In The Spectator of 17 August 1985 you published this letter, which I thought should have settled the meaning, if not the origin, of this succinct and useful word once and......

Mad Queen

Sir: A typical behaviour for a lager-lout is said to be an urge to bother and harass harmless people without provocation. I never thought that wine experts suffered from the......

Sir: Naff: Oh, Come On — I Thought We'd Settled

this years ago. The first sighted use of 'naffing' and `naff off , so far as I know, was in my novel Billy Liar (1959). It was conscript talk. Ama- zingly, it seems now,......

Party Pooper

Sir: Michael Grosvenor Myer's letter (22 July) was a moving cry from the heart of the excluded. He is correct about the way your contributors go on about your party and I might......