Not Everyone's Happy
Sir: In his article about Peter McKay's departure from Punch (Media studies, 30 November), Stephen Glover states that, 'The marvellous thing is that everyone seems much happier,......
Imperial Sensitivity
Sir: Stuart Campbell's commendably sensi- tive appreciation of Franz Josef I is never- theless flawed. To say that Austria's 'military occupation of Bosnia in 1878, and its......
Beyond A Joke
Sir: Isn't Michael Harrington, in his spirited `defence of J. Edgar Hoover (Alger Hiss: a postscript', Nov 30), pushing the joke a lit- tle too far? He concedes, after all, that......
Letters Listen To Experience
Sir: There is a contradiction at the heart of Sue Cameron's 'On air in two minutes, Sir Humphrey' (30 November). If, as she sug- gests, civil servants have usurped so much power......
Sir: The Emper , R Franz Josef ('britain's Unwilling...
was also Honorary Colonel -If the King's Dragoon Guards, senior British -avalry regiment of the line. The regiment's -ap badge, gra- ciously conferred by Franz Josef himself,......