Up With Bottomley

Sir: Even from Auberon Waugh's article maligning Peter Bottomley it is clear that the Transport Minister is a man supportive of family life, is concerned for the dis-......

Passchendaele

Sir: I greeted Gavin Stamp's article on war graves (The silent witnesses', November 7) with great sadness but also pleasure at the recognition of these moving and often......

Tasteless

Sir: The Spectator Christmas issue arrived upon my return from hospital (where I had left my nasal polyps) containing Ian Samuel's discourse 'A mouthful of ashes'. I was wearing......

Poetry And Sae

Sir: In the spring of 1989 Chatto & Windus hope to publish the second volume of the New Chatto Poets series. Anyone wishing to have their work considered for inclusion should......

Claiming Credit

Sir: Noel Malcolm (12 December) says that the deployment of cruise and Pershing missiles 'seems' to have been vindicated by the signing of a treaty made possible because the......

Cold Comforts

Sir: I read Dr Gerard Bulger's article (19/26 December) on 'Hypothermia Hyped to Death', with interest and at times a wry smile, if that was not out of place when reading of the......

Bottomley Replies

Sir: How about asking your wine corres- pondent to review non- and low-alcohol wines and beers? Peter Bottomley Minister for Roads and Traffic, Department of Transport, 2......