25 NOVEMBER 2006, page 28

Calling Time On Legislation

From Christopher W. Robson Sir: In your leading article ‘To govern is not to legislate’ (18 November), you quote the late Ralph Harris as arguing that there should be a......

Vote Ukip To Leave The Eu

From Robert McWhirter Sir: Matthew Parris (Another voice, 18 November) quotes Yeats: ‘The worst [in politics] are full of passionate intensity’. He then goes on to imply that......

Vidal Statistics

From Paul Warwick Sir: In his review of Gore Vidal’s Point to Point Navigation (Books, 18 November), Nicholas Haslam asks, ‘Who, in 1973, but Vidal was talking of a “world dying......

Noblest Of Romans

From John Jenkins Sir: I cannot allow Paul Johnson’s assertions about the poverty of Latin literature to remain unanswered (And another thing, 11 November). It is true that......

Hoodwinked

From Ian Rumfitt Sir: The Warden of All Souls puts the best possible gloss on Dr John Hood’s plan to change the way Oxford University is governed (Letters, 18 November). But his......

Abc Of Jsb

From Peter Smaill Sir: I’m afraid J.S. Bach wouldn’t last long in court (Rod Liddle, 18 November) suing Procol Harum for, er, ‘adapting’ the ‘Air on a G String’ to become a......