20 APRIL 2002, page 31

Running For Justice

From Mr Victor Barker Sir: I read Fenton Bresler's article ('Don't privatise justice', 13 April) with some interest. I agree to some extent with what he says, but after two......

Material Motives

From Mr Michael Pfauth Sir: Jasper Griffin's article (The jealousy of God', 13 April) is very interesting and informative, but he omitted some vital facts. What point of......

Good Riddance To Bad Sport

From Mr Ken Gosling Sir: Sadly for the noble Lord Mancroft (Letters, 13 April), we do live in a democracy, and the undeniable fact is that the majority of the people in this......

She Who Pays The Piper. . .

From Mr Robert Triggs Sir: A.N. Wilson's observations ('In her own words', 6 April) that the Queen Mother may not have been as familiar with T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land as she......

Survival Of The Few

From Mr Daniel Neades Sir: Dot Wordsworth asks about the connection between `few' and 'eight' (Mind your language, 13 April), following a reported claim that the word 'few' is......

Der Meister

From Mr Michael Henderson Sir: Having been challenged by Mr Anthony Malcolm (Letters, 13 April) to defend my estimation of Wagner as the greatest composer after Beethoven, it is......

You, Not They

From Mr Nick Strange Sir: It would indeed be pretty silly if we in Germany greeted each other by saying, 'How goes it to them?', as Geoffrey Wheatcroft would have us believe......