Sir: Your Coverage Of The American Attack Upon Terrorist...

in Libya (19 April) was shameful. Christopher Hitchens's pre- dictably snide comments about the La Belle discotheque in Berlin were in typical- ly bad taste. (There was no......

Sir: I Don't Know Whether It Is Pique At Lacking

the moneyed American relatives of Churchill, Macmillan, Hailsham, Channon and Hilary Benn that makes your paper sound anti-American. Pace Alan Watkins (Diary, 26 April), it can......

Is It Shakespeare?

Sir: In rejecting Edmund lronside as non- Shakespearean because it lacks poetry, Dr Rowse (26 April) seem to have forgotten his own assessment of an 11-line sample I sent him in......

Up-front For The Arts

Sir: The problem is that I am rather addicted to A. Waugh's column. I even agree with it now and then. Yet there is the odd time when the old boy nods. On 26 April he wrote that......

Letters Libyan Barbarities

Sir: How odd that Ferdinand Mount (Poli- tics, 19 April) should compare Napier's expedition to Magdala in 1867 with the recent US air-raid on Libya. Odder still that he should......

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