Waldenism

Sir: Your article (Politics, 5 January) has interesting overtones of another Walden. Thoreau was an unenthusiastic taxpayer, and was honest enough to ask the state for nothing......

Orvvell's Sense

Sir: John Casey ('Orwell's silliness', 5 January) duly reminds any uncritical admirers of Orwell that he could some- times get matters out of perspective. So evidently can Mr......

Dead Clichés?

Sir: Ronald Butt's article 'The Politics of fashion' (15 December) raises more ques- tions than it answers. He is right, of course, in what appears to be his main, rather......

Dr Johnson

Sir: Being neither an historian nor a psychologist I feel I am not qualified to disagree with D. Watkins (Letters, 5 Janu- ary) over his censure of Dr Johnson's support of......

Lost Irony

Sir: The title assigned to my last dispatch ('Only MIC leaked', 15 December) cries out to be corrected. What offends is the word 'only'. Though factually it is quite possibly......

Letters

Sudanese hospitality Sir: I feel that I really must reply to Nicholas Coleridge's highly distorting arti- cle (Diary, 5 January) concerning Sudanese hospitality. Like Mr......