Speak For Yourself
Sir: In his review of the biography of Jorge Luis Borges by James Woodall (Books, 29 June), David Sexton says that Borges's lack of sexual experience was a trauma for him,......
Waste Of Space
Sir: Writing when respectable columnists were no more than a set of initials, Dorothy L. Sayers once defined a cad as the sort of man who had his picture on the rear cover of......
No Thanks To Europe
Sir: I am increasingly astonished by the EU's success in persuading commentators to ascribe to it achievements with which it had nothing to do. For instance, Bruce Anderson in......
Butterfingers
Sir: Alan Watkins's Diary piece on Sir Her- bert Butterfield (22 June) contains a large number of factual errors. My name is Patrick not Paul, I left New Hall almost two years......
We Don't Want To Know
Sir: Much as I admire Hilary Mantel as a novelist, I am less than enamoured of her as a book reviewer. I refer to her review of Penelope Lively's latest novel, Heat Wave, in......
Dotty Guess
Sir: Simon Cawkwell's challenge (Letters, 22 June) to readers to estimate Dot Wordsworth's age is too good to miss. Given her frequent references to her child Veronica, a name......
Prague Bulls-eye
Sir: Paul Johnson's eulogy of contemporary Prague as a sort of capitalist and moralist Valhalla (And another thing, 25 May) fails to take account of some of the brute facts on......
Humbug
Sir: It is seldom that one finds a Diary item that seems to beg as many questions as Alan Watkins's 'revelation' that Ian Har- greaves banished Ian Aitken from the pages of the......
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