Favourite Quote
Sir: My erstwhile colleague James Young, who has saved me from many a howler in the past, is right to say that the words `Let them hate me as long as they fear me' were said by......
Scottish Dancing
Sir: The Kirov Ballet Company has been showing the classics to full houses over the past five weeks at the Coliseum in London (Arts, 2 August). The classics clearly have a huge......
South Africa Today
Sir: For sheer bilge, Andrew Kenny's ritual relating of the woes of white South Africans (The black and white degree show', 12 July) achieves a new low in black- bashing, even......
Pulling A Fast One
Sir: It seems to me that the 27-year-old Woodrow Wyatt was outwitted by Gandhi (`Even his fasts were a fraud', 9 August). Aside from the usual gentle teasing, there was,......
Time To Pay For Pows
Sir: The Under-secretary of State for Defence in his report on the review of deductions made from the pay of officer POWs during the second world war admits that no money was......
Letters The Price Of Peace
Sir: Brian Hanrahan's argument about Palestinian terrorism and the peace process could be described as 'bombed if you do, bombed if you don't' (`The inevitable explosion', 9......