Isaiah's Charity
Sir: It is natural that the rethinking of repu- tations begins in death. That of Diana, Princess of Wales unaccountably soars while Isaiah Berlin is brought down to earth by......
Open Letters
Sir: Bruce Anderson is right to identify the Financial Times as an advocate of the euro, but quite wrong in his other remarks about the paper (Politics, 15 November). Our let-......
Sinatra Deserves Better
Sir: I hope that Philip Hensher's incisive review of Michael Freedland's execrable LETTERS biography of Frank Sinatra (Books, 15 November) will save some readers from wasting 20......
Sir: It Was The Late Frank Zappa Who Char- Acterised
the conductors of interviews with rock 'n' roll stars as 'people who can't write presenting people who can't talk to people who can't read'. As to Sinatra being 'surely the one......
Tuneful Twitchers
Sir: It was unwise of Michael Portillo (Books, 15 November) to assume that just because the John Major Cabinet was divid- ed ideologically between bird-watchers and opera buffs,......
Rory Encore Sir: Rory Bremner. Excellent Discovery. Keep...
Peter Gingold peter@pgingold.demon.co.uk......
Sir: Why Do You Give A Biography Of Frank Sinatra,
one of the great icons of American show business, to someone to review when he is so ignorant of American show busi- ness as not to know what 'second banana' means? The top......
Not The Whole Picture
Sir: Having opened promisingly with a rejection of discredited historical interpre- tations from Marxism onwards, it is disap- pointing that Richard West exhumes anoth- er, Old......
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