Osmosing To Britishness
From Stephen Mendes Sir: David Lovibond is wrong to claim that 'the burgeoning ethnic minorities cleave to their languages, dress, way of life and, most importantly, their......
Wile E., Not Bugs
From Paul Stock Sir: Peter Oborne is mistaken (Politics, 1 May). It is Wile E. Coyote who always succumbs to the force of gravity, not Bugs Bunny. Wile is a much more apposite......
Diminishing To Us All
From Joan Adamson Sir: Ross Clark (Globophobia, 17 April) asks whether the descendants of African slaves bringing lawsuits against Lloyd's of London and others would rather be......
In Praise Of Meps
From Dermot Scott Sir: Your leading article (It's about democracy'. 24 April) wrongly suggests that MEPs 'do not have the direct power to reject legislation that is enjoyed by......
A Tragic History
From Robert Duffield Sir: Jeremy Clarke's boy's maternal grandfather's belief that keeping goats tends to make people either cynical or pugnacious certainly has ancient roots......
Arithmetic Of Abortion
From Edward Collier Sir: Phil Wyness (Letters, 1 May) writes that 'since the introduction of the Abortion Law Reform Act of 1967, the state has conspired in the destruction of......
Mixed-up Lingo
From J.M.E. Took Sir: Paul Johnson (And another thing, 17 April) has got his lingo mixed up. *Go and take a shufti' belonged to the army in Egypt, never in India, where one went......