Saintly Signalmen

Sir: Your leader of 20 August is less than Just to the signalmen. You dismiss the work as lacking stress and requiring, at most, 11 weeks' training. In fact, it is very......

An Ill Wind . . .

Sir: In the matter of former President Ford's alleged affliction (Letters, 20 August), I should point out that a lack of facility in the simultaneous farting and gum-chewing......

A Sad Fact

Sir: Nigella Lawson in her review (Televi- sion, 27 August) displays crass ignorance. How dare she aver that the transsexual's conviction of being in 'the wrong body' is a......

Diesel Recipes

Sir: Professor Steve Jones's rendition of a recipe for chicken flambeed in diesel (Diary, 27 August), ostensibly donated by an inmate of Her Majesty's Prison, Parkhurst,......

Letters Polish Practices

Sir: Regarding the article 'No sex please, we're married' (20 August), a Polish friend tells me that it is a widely held view in her country that if a normal, happy married......

Facial Challenges

Sir: P. D. James's remark (Diary, 30 July) that for new young novelists 'good looks are regarded as an asset on the publicity trail' is alas not wholly true; for one thing, most......

Curse Of Salieri

Sir: Oh dear! A computer virus seems to have infected The Spectator's typogra- phers or is it the malevolent shadow of Salieri? The advertisement in last week's issue announcing......