Part-time Players
Sir: Bruce Anderson's plea (Politics, 15 August) for more diversity in first-class cricket, 'gentlemen' as well as 'players', is a good deal less snobbish and more practical......
To Boldly Cavil
Sir: With reference to the current contro- versy over split infinitives, the following quotation from Bernard Shaw might be of interest: Some busybody on your staff has seen fit......
Caledonian Confidence
Sir: I have a decade anyway on Andrew Neil (`Scotland the self-deluded', 15 August). I remember sitting at night in a Glasgow bomb shelter, he does not. The Scotland he......
When In Rome . . .
Sir: Writing the Diary (15 August) from Italy and observing the disregard for law traditional in Romance cultures, Allan Massie immediately claims that heed for the law makes......
Ducal Days
Sir: In his very interesting article (`Tagli- atelle alla Mussolini', 8 August) Nicholas Farrell tells of his visit to the small Apen- nine town where the Duce was born and......
Arraigned In Error
Sir: You remark (Leading article, 15 August) on 'the endemic corruption and incompetence in the force'. That from time to time there is corruption or incompetence is not in......
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