20 DECEMBER 2008, page 58

Why Did Gatland Resign?

Sir: The uproar over the strange case of Maria Gatland McGuire seems almost incomprehensible from a Belfast perspective. At the beginning of December she was compelled to resign......

A British Napoleon

Sir: Never mind Napoleon’s piles at Waterloo, which Matthew Parris wrote about the other week (Another Voice, 6 December); as a very young man Napoleon — who even then had a......

Hitler In 1938

Sir: It is easy for Andrew Gimson (Letters, 29 November) to call the German generals cowards for not getting rid of Hitler in 1938, but he shows a very poor grasp of the......

Nancynomics

Sir: Nancy Dell’Olio’s article about Keynes (‘I will always defend a big spender like J.M. Keyes’, 29 November) gave an amusing take on why some support Keynes’s ideas. But she......

Who The F— Are You?

Sir: Dot Wordsworth opines in her column (Mind your language, 6 December) that ‘no one has ever been called C*** or F***.’ However, she states that she would welcome evidence to......