Letters Bankaid
Sir: The Christian Aid advertisement on Third World debt carried in The Spectator ('Should 500,000 children every year have to die because of a bank loan?' . . . 15 September),......
Truly Awful
Sir: I was amused by Nicholas Soames writing that A. N. Wilson had 'broken every convention of civilised society' (Let- ters, 7 July) by reporting a conversation he had with the......
Don't Come Into The Garden
Sir: Ursula Buchan is quite right to remark how many garden plants are poisonous, though they have, hitherto, done little harm (Gardens, 15 September). Nonethe- less cyanides,......
The Vicar's Seen It All
Sir: I was just a bit fed up with the tone of Hilary Mantel's review of 'Wild At Heart' (Cinema, 1 September). The headline 'Don't take the vicar' and the phrase in the body of......
Sir: Michael Irwin's Attack On The World Bank (money In
the Bank, 18 August) deserves some comment. Of course the Bank — like any other large bureaucracy — is imperfect. But to imply, as Dr Irwin does, that it is one vast gravy train......