Adjust His Set

Sir: Surely Richard Ingrams can easily solve one of his problems with the new television set. By turning the colour knob fully anti - clockwise he can resume seeing everything......

Cromwell On Drink

Sir: Richard West (`Drinkers will be persecuted', 31 December) is wrong to say that Oliver Cromwell banned the celebra- tion of Christmas. It was the work of the Long Parliament......

Unseated Reason

Sir: The interestingly informative letter from Mr Colin Brown (14 January), elaborating the distinctions between individuals, objects and places that are all dignified by the......

Letters

A monetarist's dream Sir: Charles Moore ('Mr Jenkin's cap', 14 January) displays only a partial grasp of the issues at stake in the Government's rate- capping proposals. He......

Squashing Mercouri

Sir: Whilst having no wish to protract ad nauseam the debate on the return of the Elgin Marbles, I cannot resist suggesting a possible solution to this absurd situation.......

Haxey Hood

Sir: Roy Kerridge (`Baffling the Boggins', 14 January) and his local informants are in error when he declares that the 'Hoodnapping' of 1984 was the first. In 1942, 'D' Battery......