Diary Of A Nobody

Sir: Every time that Max Hastings is given the hospitality of your diary slot (Diary, 31 July) he uses the space to tell us that he is `middle-class'. Why? Although I have never......

Sea Dog

Sir: Unlike Sir Alec Guinness (Diary, 17 July) when I think of the Cunard liner Mau- retania no fond thoughts come into my head. But then Sir Alec didn't sleep in a crew cabin......

Sir: 'where A Vacuum Of Knowledge Exists, A Stream Of

misinformation is quickly sucked in to fill the void.' This is an accu- rate description of how the complex issues and facts of the Yugoslav conflict have been presented by the......

Papal Bull

Sir: What nonsense Paul Johnson talks (And another thing, 31 July)! May another cradle Catholic from Lancashire of roughly Paul's age (I remember him at Oxford; blazing red hair......

Transubstantiation

Sir: Reading Anne Applebaum's explo- ration of the United Nations Os the UN really necessary?', 31 July) I had the impres- sion that, although I had never had any- thing to do......

Token Radical

Sir: The capacity for self-delusion in the human race was well illustrated in the Duke of Buccleuch's letter to The Spectator (Let- ters, 24 July). All wealth is derived from......

Sir: In Her Excellent Article Of 31 July, Anne Applebaum

refers to 'minorities like women'. Why? So far as I know, women comprise exactly half the human popula- tion. Navin Sullivan 45 Abbots Gardens, London......