Whither Wherefore?

Sir: Reading F.G. Miles's ingenious disqui- sition on `Why?' (from what cause?) and `Quhy?' (for what purpose?) (Letters, 27 August) and A. Ivereigh's learned Spanish reply (10......

Women On Top

Sir: Paul Johnson (10 September) rightly praises women and their superiority in many fields of human endeavour. The late Lady Violet Bonham Carter was, I believe, the first......

Louts And Swots

Sir: A respected Christian lady is impressed by my arguments on religion and challenges Paul Johnson (And another thing, 3 September) to refute them. His idea of a refutation is......

Bosom Count

Sir: Both Jane Russell and the nameless lady referred to in Theodore Dalrymple's column (10 September) would have just reason to be proud possessors of 'bosoms'. Despite any......

Quack, Quack

Sir: Mr Martin Vander Weyer asserts that `the Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill, ... instructed his Chancellor, Peter Thorn- eycroft, . . . to put a stop to Clore. Thorney-......

Sorry, Ladies

Sir: Richard Cockett (Arts, 10 September) must have been too obsessed with the inanities of the last night of the Proms to check with the office library. Elgar was not a......

Carnage Balladeers

Sir: Mark Steyn (Arts, 3 September) won- ders which events will inspire Irish Republi- can songsters when they come to celebrate their feats of arms over the last 25 years; he......