Heartbeats Of Delight
Sir: Few would disagree with Paul Johnson’s view that prolonging the human lifespan is of little value if it merely gives us extra years of Alzheimer’s and debility (And another......
Russia Unhinged
Sir: Vladimir Putin recently implied that John McCain was to blame for the war in Georgia. Russian intelligence claims that American military instructors have been in the war......
Famous Last Words
Sir: I don’t think that Martin Vander Weyer (‘Forget economic recovery, Gordon’, 23 August) is correct in intimating that Blackadder was the source of the famous line ‘What we......
Cocktails In Purgatory
Sir: My old friend Taki says (High life, 30 August) that the French ambassador who was sacked because he described Israel as a ‘s****y little country’ is now ‘giving cocktail......
In Search Of Honour
Sir: Taki’s admiration for the samurai’s honour code (High life, 23 August) and his repeated words of praise for the Wehrmacht in past columns deserve the following comments:......
Riefenstahl’s Record
Sir: Jonathan Mirsky correctly identifies (Letters, 23 August) the ‘ceremonial Potemkin’ of the Beijing Olympics but he is wrong to state that Leni Riefenstahl’s film Triumph of......
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