19 SEPTEMBER 1998, page 32

A Hack's Life

Sir: I read with interest the article written by Stephen Glover (Media studies, 12 September) and I would like to clarify a few points. Mr Glover refers to redundancy pay- ments......

Dickens And Slavery

Sir: I much appreciated most of Jonathan Sumption's review of Vol. X of The Letters of Charles Dickens of which I was editor (Books, 5 September); but I must bring up one point,......

Letters Conservatives And The Euro

Sir: Maybe it is Bruce Anderson not Chris Patten who has detached himself from real- ity over the single currency (Politics, 12 September). Chris Patten has not plumped (any......

Aid Absurdities

Sir: Clare Short (`No, better than the previ- ous 500', 5 September) misses the point of Peter Bauer's and Cranley Onslow's article, which is that foreign aid bolsters the power......

Sir: Thank God There Is Some Hope For The Conservative

party yet (Another voice, 12 September). It should be obvious to anyone but the most blinkered Euronutter that Tony Blair and New Labour will never lose an election over the......