27 MAY 1995, page 36

Mixed Reviews

Sir: I am certain that there will be many punters like myself who will regret Giles Auty's decision to leave The Spectator and take himself off to Australia. I began taking The......

Impudent Scot

Sir: I wouldn't quarrel with the gist of Paul Johnson's article (And another thing, 20 May), though only someone in the throes of infatuation can suppose that Mr Blair is 'made......

Sir: With A Sigh Of Relief One Bids Farewell To

Giles Auty, who has got away with writ- ing the same whingeing article for the last four years in The Spectator. Do the Aussies really deserve him? Hilary Mussett 35 High......

Mobile Carriages

Sir: It has been apparent for some time that British Rail needs a strategy to cope with its telephoning customers. I have been advocating a new separate class of carriage for......

Goodbye!

Sir: In the light of his recent observations on abstruse words in Spectator articles (`demography', 'egregious', Letters, 20 May), we suggest that Mr Donald Froud should cancel......

Interested Party

Sir: Ross Clark argues (`There's nowhere else to go', 6 May) that road traffic levels are stable and therefore the need for improvements to the road network has passed. Mr Clark......

Papist Dot

Sir: Mr Ron Farquhar (Letters, 20 May) needn't be so snotty about my obiter dictum regarding the year when we might expect the 6,000th anniversary of the creation of the world,......

Letters Wake Up, Prof

Sir: Professor Richard Lynn writes (Letters, 20 May) that my article on 'the inheritabili- ty of intelligence and the genetic basis of race differences in intelligence contains......