Un-christian

Sir: Malcolm Muggeridge professes to be a Christian, yet his remark about Dame Rebecca West and her husband, reported by Geoffrey Wheatcroft in Notebook (26 March) strikes us......

Opinion Polls

Sir: Allan Massie (5 March) seems to have an obsession with opinion polls. They are not entirely to be ignored, but they only tell part of the story. In the first place they ask......

Crosspatch

Sir: My grandmother always refused to buy hot cross buns. She felt that they demeaned the Christian symbol of the Cross. Perhaps some people may agree with her, as I do. Charles......

Letters

Off the rails Sir: How sad to see Ian Waller, a sensitive man where railways are concerned, repeating the old canard of the Great Cen- tral as a 'useless railway' (26 March). It......

Hard To Place

Sir: Simon Courtauld's piece on St James's, P iccadilly (Notebook, 19 March) is misleading: just because the Dunamis itself (based at St James's) concerns with defence and......

Lift Luggage

Sir: From the item in Simon Courtauld's Notebook (12 March) it would appear some misunderstanding has arisen about the charge for skiing equipment carried on our services as......

Wild Goose

Sir: Richard West (19 March) returns to his old favourite idea that Swedish men and women find each other so unattractive that they fly south like the geese to mate — the women......