Build On The Past

Sir: Simon Thurley (Britain is being demolished', 17 November) calls us to think again before politicians, short-term financiers and architects repeat all the mistakes we made......

Powell Was No Racist

Sir: Randhir Singh Bains (Letters, 17 November) is being disingenuous when he argues that Enoch Powell was, indeed, a racist because the main thrust of his concern was against......

Old-fashioned Murder

Sir: There's not the slightest hint in George Orwell's essay that the murders people liked to read about 'were the consequence of a hypocritical society' (Roy Liddle, 'The Foxy......

Library's Silent Majority

Sir: In his letter disputing Paul Barker's account of the London Library's recent AGM (17 November), Richard Davenport-Hines repeats the slur he made at the meeting, that......

Voices Off

Sir: It was good to find Bryan Forbes a television-shouting supporter (Shouting at my telly', 17 November). I join with him, especially in vocally denouncing background music.......

I Raised A 3 A.m. Girl

Sir: Unlike Rachel Johnson, I was delighted to introduce a daughter as a 3 AM. Girl (Can anyone be a writer now?', 17 November). Jessica was one of the three 'founding sisters'......