Proud To Be A Swot
Sir: It is a sad fact that in journalism sweep- ing generalisations are often inevitable. I was, therefore, not amazed to read Emma Forrest's article 'Eating Pop Tarts, watch-......
No Problem With Women
Sir: If, as William Oddie claims (An addi- tional curate's egg', 20 March), the Priests (Ordination of Women) Measure indicates a 'radical tampering' with the ancient orders of......
Sir: Petronella Wyatt Recalls Edward Lyndo Forecasting In...
(27 August 1939) , `There will be no war.' He did not. It was R.H. Naylor ('England's greatest astrologer') in the Sunday Express. Beaver- brook sacked him on 4 September and he......
False Attribution
Sir: 'I am only a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries.' Pablo Picasso's crit-......
Titular Paps
Sir: Peter Levi (Letters, 27 March) may have walked round only two Jura Paps, but he is wrong to suggest that 'any third protu- berance is too small to be called a Pap'. The......
Local Irritation
Sir: Reviewing a restaurant in Upper Street (Restaurant, 20 March), Nigella Lawson writes 'I never, ever thought I'd envy people living in Islington.' I am sure that Charles......
The Ear Of God
Sir: The answer to the question posed by H. Mayer Brown and reported by Peter Phillips (Arts, 13 March) concerning the `point' of elaborate polyphonic church music in......
Ho-ho!
Sir: We Germans may not be good in bed ('We might as well make love', 13 March) but at least we have our sense of humour . Renate Ogilvie The Rampart, Castlecrag, NSW 2068,......
Shops To Shun
Sir: May I, through these pages, enquire as to the addresses of the branches of Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury's and Europa at which Andrew Neil shops (Letters, 20 March) so that......
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