Street Of Misadventure

Sir: Mirror Magazine had one thing in common with Mr Grundy's column: it ap- peared weekly. He suggests (1 1 July) that it might have shared another common link : that neither......

Great Unwashed

Sir: I read with appreciation-. Mr Oliver Warner's excellent review of Kellow Ches- ney's The Victorian Underworld (11 July). But why, oh why does he say that Dore was 'a master......

The Royal Jelly

Sir: Sir Denis Brogan (11 July) concludes that the examples of Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain do not 'suggest that we should go very far in recruiting our political per- sonnel......

Lodge Protest

Sir: I have looked in vain for the one letter that hasn't appeared yet; couldn't you tickle up Mr Skeffington-Lodge of Brighton to tell us that he was kidding all along'and he......

On Double Standards

Sir: Dr J. L. Insley (Letters, 11 July) has stated that apartheid 'gives greater prosperity and peace to all races within the republic than anywhere else in Africa; The point......

Metrication Mania

Sir: May I offer some comments on Chris- topher Booker's article `Metrication mania' (27 June), in which he alleges that there has been a plot to impose on Britain by stealth a......

A Land Of Trouble

Sir: In the interests not merely of your circulation, but also of Mr Gale's own pro- fessional career, may I recommend that you advise him in the kindest but firmest man- ner......