Power Struggle
From Nick Reeves Sir: Rod Liddle is both right and wrong (Tees go nuclear', 21 August). It is true that our voracious and unsustainable consumption of hydrocarbons has caused......
In The Beginning
From Dennis L. Bird Sir: Celia Walden (It sure beats The Priory,' 7 August) writes that the Reverend Nicholas Gumbel 'started the Alpha course' at Holy Trinity. Brompton. It is......
Lady On A Bulldozer
From Odile Taliani Sir: I am in the reverse situation to Mrs Powell's (`Basta Italia!', 14 August). My late husband was an Italian ambassador for 15 years. We met and married in......
Origins Of The Empress
From Roger Munson Sir: Sam Leith notes (Books, 14 August) that the Sykes family showed 'an admiration of pigs worthy of Lord Emsworth himself. But there is much, much more. The......
Cream Passionnel
From Matthew Leeming Sir: In her otherwise admirable discussion of American feeding habits ('American food sucks', 21 August), Ella Windsor missed the most sensational......
Greek Myth
From Torbforn Loef Sir: Greece is not the smallest nation to host the Games (High Life, 21 August). Finland is, i.e., Helsinki 1952, only seven years after the second world war.......