Brute Force?
Sir: In his review of Christopher Hill's The Experience of Defeat (Books, 18 August) Eric Christiansen says: 'Levellers, like early Quakers, believed in brute force.' This is so......
Letters
Moonie sadness Sir: Andrew Brown's article 'Moonies vs the Reds' (4 August) makes interesting reading, not least because he freely admits to be willing to accept Moonie......
Born Alive
Sir: Paul Johnson in his strangely ambi- guous review of press comment on the Warnock Report (The press, 28 July), repeats the widespread error that abortion is permitted in......
Greatest Living Englishman
Sir: Now that Sir John Betjeman has popped his clogs, the search is on for the Greatest Living Englishman. Geoffrey Wheatcroft nominates Lester Piggott (Diary, 4 August), but......
The End
Sir: 'If Lobbs were to become the hat centre' (Diary, 25 August), then indeed the end would have come. Perhaps Mr Worsthorne was still a little dazed by the use of a blow-drier?......
Belgrano Fuss
Sir: Colin Welch writes a good comment- ary upon Labour's new defence policy (Centrepiece, 25 August). The obvious question to ask of Mr Kinnock is: 'What are you going to do......
Correction
The full list of institutions electing Trustees to the Soane Museum, mentioned in Sir John Summerson's letter last week, should have read: The Corporation of the City of London,......