Wodehouse's Code
From Mr Hany Lesser Sir: P.G. Wodehouse's wartime broadcasts did not portray the Germans as 'really jolly decent chaps' but as aggressive, callous and above all incompetent: had......
Beastly Germans
From Professor J.R.Vincent Sir: Taki seeks to disconnect the Germans from Nazi anti-Semitism (High life, 24 July). Well, maybe. But the idea that the Germans have a natural......
From Odile Taliani Sir: Taki Has An Indisputable Right To
his opin- ion about the Germans, as does A.A. Gill. The only surprise is that it seems to have escaped a man of Taki's vast culture that Schubert was Austrian, not German. It is......
Wagner's Role Models
From Dr B.C. Ellis Sir: Mr Michael Portillo (Arts, 10 July) did an excellent service in dissecting some of the barnacles that the 20th century has attached to Wagner's personal......
From Mr John Bidwell Sir: I Have Recently Had My
short story A Boy at Seven published by Alexander Waugh. It recounts ten thoroughly miser- able years spent by the author at a leading Jesuit Catholic public school during the......
Letters Crimes Of The Cloth
From Mr James McDonald Sir: Simon Caldwell's piece 'First the sus- pect then the crime' (31 July) is really too much. The article suggests that accusations of child abuse......
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