Wrong Pope
From Mr John Coggrave Sir: James McDonald in his letter of 2 October attributes the papal encyclicals Mit Brennender Sorge and Divini Redemptoris to Pius XII. He certainly......
Not So Soft
From Mr Howard Blackett Sir: I was delighted to see that Dover Col- lege was featured in Simon Barnes's article on sport in schools (No rough stuff, please, we're British', 9......
From Mr David Heaton Sir: Heard On The West Coast
line a year or two ago: 'We are sorry this train has stopped. This is due to a lack of forward motion.' David Heaton 53 Murray Road, London SW19......
My Husband Was Right
From Lady Mosley Sir: With reference to my 'disastrous poli- tics' (Books, 9 October), people now have forgotten the misery of Britain in the early Thirties: mass unemployment,......
From Mr Roger Ordish Sir: Boris Johnson Speaks Of John
Peel's 'Liverpudlian sort of voice'. John Peel was educated at Shrewsbury and has bravely confessed on the wireless that he used to talk posh, but has since mended his ways and......
Letters
A Virgin impounded From Mr Michael Gadsden Sir: I should like to enter the really silly rail competition ('Heard any good excuses late- ly?', 25 September). On the 6.39 a.m.......
From Mr Lionel Trippett Sir: I'm Sony That Boris Johnson
was reject- ed by Radio Four. I was rejected by Radio Five a few months ago. They wanted some- one to comment on a nuclear matter but I was deemed unsuitable on the grounds that......
Ludocrous Ideas
From Mr RA. Massie-Blomfteld Sir: Ludovic Kennedy is nothing if not pre- dictable ('An Atheist in the Pew', 2 Octo- ber). Yet it surprises me that he fails to realise that his......
Good Guy, Bad Guy
From Mrs M.K Fowler Sir: I was very sorry to read that the BBC has dispensed with Boris Johnson's services as presenter of the programme The Week in Westminster (Another Voice,......
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