Face The Fifties
Sir: Orwell may well have once said, as your excellent Timothy Garton Ash writes ('New faces for old', 17 March), that at 50 everyone has the face he deserves. But he was hardly......
Japanese Exports
Sir: Labour's spokesman Mr John Smith, according to Noel Malcolm's article on 'corporatism' (31 March), makes an ex- traordinary factual error when writing ab- out the Japanese......
Sir: After The Head Was Chopped Off, Oliver Cromwell's...
body was, Rick Jones relates, flung into a pit beneath Tyburn gallows in January 1661. Oliver's daughter Mary Viscountess Fauconberg piously retrieved and took the headless......
Sir: Harry Phibbs' Article Reminded Me Of The Time I
took Nizametdin Akhmetov, the Bashkir poet who had spent 20 years in Soviet prisons, labour camps and psychiat- ric hospitals, round London. We came across tramps who were......
Head And Tales
Sir: A few years ago I preceded Rick Jones (24 March) in re-hashing the story of Oliver Cromwell's head (and his body) for the voluntary helpers and marshals who answer......
Idiot With An I
Sir: Harold Braham is quite right (Letters, 31 March) to jeer at the illiteracy of my letter to you (about the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award) which read 'the judges . .......
Poetry And Fact
Sir: It is with considerable disquiet that I read your 'poem', 'Penalty Kick for Park- ing on Yellow Line' (31 March). By its publication you have unjustifiably tarnished the......
House Rationing
Sir: Harry Phibbs' article 'Cardboard Vil- lage' (10 March), was both welcome and salutory, marred unfortunately by one major inaccuracy. He states: 'Anyone who is homeless can......
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