Trying Too Hard

Sir: Like Cosima von Billow, (`The city which is serious about fun', 16/23 Decem- ber) I have been an expatriate and recently lived in London for ten years. During that time, I......

Fighting Back

Sir: The degree of ignorance displayed by your diarist (30 December) in his ramblings concerning me and the Daily Mirror over the Royals' Christmas day service is breath-......

Corporals To The Rescue

Sir: Auberon Waugh offers a hostage to fortune in asking us last week to 'Take cover, as the non-commissioned officers take over' (Another voice, 30 December). We read in his......

Euro-sceptic Defence

Sir: Frank Johnson's leader (9 December) accuses Euro-sceptics of mean-spirited nationalism, relishing the riots in France, equates them with Charles James Fox's fan- tasies in......

A Glimmer Of Hope

Sir: If I renew my subscription the immedi- ate cause will have been Matthew Parris's article about the Prime Minister (`The case for John Major', 16/23 December). I have been......

Greek Assistance

Sir: Professor Jasper Griffin introduces his review of the excellent recent book by C.M. Woodhouse on Rhigas Ferraios (Books, 16/23 December) with the sentence: `Greece, as we......