Sir: Oh, Dear! You Chose Paul Foot To Review Tom
Bower's Maxwell: The Final Verdict. Foot worked there for six years, Maxwell 'paying huge fees and salaries'. Six years! I'm sorry to talk money but didn't it take rather a long......
Sir: What Joy To Read Paul Foot's Review Of The
new Tom Bower Maxwell biography; nearly as much pleasure as to read the ear- lier splendidly sycophantic biography of Maxwell by Joe Haines — like Foot, also on Cap'n Bob's......
Spare The Visual Arts
Sir: It must be difficult for many of your readers to put up with Paul Johnson on any subject at all, and it would be sad if there were many who could find him harmless good......
Wicked Waste
Sir: Surely Emma Rasiel is wrong to fault Ian Hislop on biblical scholarship (Letters, 10 February). As I recall, the sin of Onan was 'spilling the seed upon the ground', and......
Media Reaction
Sir: Dot Wordsworth's defence of the use of media as a singular noun is pretty weak (Mind your language, 17 February). Omnibus has indeed a plural form but it is in the dative,......
Letters Maxwell's Foot Soldier
Sir: Paul Foot's chutzpah (Books, 17 Febru- ary) is extraordinary. For the six years he worked at the Daily Mirror he 'marvelled daily' at the way his colleagues threw them-......
Very Lowering
Sir: What Petronella Wyatt doesn't know about smoking would obviously fill a book (Furthermore, 17 February). But let me contradict her basic premise that smoking is somehow......
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