11 JUNE 1983, page 22

Duff Cooper's Resignation

Sir: I see from your issue of 28 May that A. J. P. Taylor has infringed Auberon Waugh's monopoly of slinging mud at Duff Cooper. I wonder what 'evidence' Mr Taylor has seen that......

Letters

Colespeak Sir: Richard Ingrams's television column, so often the cry of simple, good sense in the wilderness, makes very enjoyable reading but lately his somewhat petty, overly......

Schools Cricket

Sir: It remains a pleasure to read Alan Gib- son on cricket but in his review of the 1983 Wisden (14 May) he is mistaken in sug- gesting that schools cricket (which as he says......

Simple Vanity

Sir: I wonder how many other readers of the Spectator chess column are becoming like myself increasingly exasperated by endless exposes of Ray Keene's latest games (another two......

Wall To Wall

Sir: Given a decade or two dry-stone walls will in their turn have replaced the bar- barous mess of barbed wire in P. J. Kavanagh's area (Postscript, 21 May). As more and more......

Bristol's Schools

Sir: Richard West's article (Torn-again socialist', 28 May) on Bern and Bristol refers to the ruination of inner-city schools. `Two of the grammar schools are now con......