Making A Meal

Sir: We welcomed the article on 3 Febru- ary by Nigella Lawson. A further visit may prove a more reliable guide for your readers. We were caught on the cusp, as on the day......

Lithuanian Independence

Sir: The policy of the United States to- wards the Republic of Lithuania suggests inconsistency in US foreign policy. The State Department may be correct in claim- ing that the......

Literally Ungrammatical

Sir: What is happening to our 'sweet English tongue' when the literary editor of a national newspaper, Graham Lord, (Let- ters, 24 February) can write . the judges — who......

Exposure

Sir: In his review of Titmuss Regained (10 March) Colin Welch quotes Bacon to the effect that 'the higher a man climbs, the better the world's view of his arse'. For years I......

Artistic Immorality

Sir: Steven Berkoff's nonsense (Letters, 17 March) is perhaps self-evidently so. Any artist is fundamentally a craftsman; his craft may be writing, poetry, painting, music or......

Gerard Manley Hopkins

This is the fifth in our Lent Series on English spiritual writers. THE few who regularly read poetry now may well find that it fills a kind of religious craving in their lives.......

A Dictionary Of Cant

SELF-FINANCING. New bright ideas such as compulsory dog registration are being advertised as 'self-financing' schemes. What it means is that the schemes will have a power to......