Ken — The People's Choice?
Sir: The full-page advertisement from the GLC (17 March), which invites us to 'say no to no say in who runs London', is surely the product of a well-developed sense of the......
Church Macintoshes
Sir: As one who does not wish to see the severely limited role permitted to women in the RC liturgy subjected to any further restrictions, could I ask James Michie to c larify......
Not Alone
Sir: P. J. Kavanagh is right (Postscript, 31 March) to praise Channel 4 but less right to suggest that nobody else has. My successor at the Observer, Julian Barnes, has been......
Pleasing Everyone
Sir: In your Notes (Pleasing the Greeks', 31 March) you refer to the departmental view of the Foreign Office in 1941 that a decision should be made to return the Parthenon......
Wingate ' S View Sir: If Byron Farwell, Whoever He Is,...
to say in a book that Orde Wingate w as a sour religious maniac with a grossly inflated reputation who neither admired nor trusted the Gurkhas, he merely aligns himself with the......
Torvill And Dean
Sir: Your predecessor Alexander Chancellor, in his new guise as TV critic (Television, 31 March) quotes Ludovic Kennedy's remark, 'When you've seen one skater, you've really......
Letters
A dreadful place Sir: Miss Tisdall's sentence is brutal, savage, horrific, and will mark her for life, according to the Press. It probably will. I spent three and a half years......