19 JULY 2008, page 24

Rod For Our Backs

Sir: Each week, Rod Liddle’s column reminds me of the little girl of whom it was written that she hiked up her skirt to show she wasn’t wearing knickers. In the absence of a......

Persuasive Argument

Sir: The problem with calling the initial Islamic campaign ‘unprovoked’ (Letters, 12 July) is that many events in late antiquity — and modern times — were also unprovoked. The......

Russian Vulnerability

Sir: Oleg Gordievsky (Letters, 5 July) dismisses Russia’s perception of its own vulnerability as ‘communist propaganda’. In fact the anxiety borne of inhabiting a land without......