Faking The News?
Sir: Even in our victim-obsessed age, Richard Tait's claim that his people at poor little ITN (revenues £88 million a year) are being 'harassed' by the 'relatively affluent'......
Is She For Real?
Sir: Further to my letter published in your columns on 3 May, I have been in corre- spondence with the Deutsches Adelsarchiv in Marburg on the subject of the so-called `Alice......
Had Away
Sir: Anne McElvoy is a Durham lass but your headline writer betrays non-Geordie origins in 'Howay the lasses!' (17 May). The Tyneside exhortation, 'Ha'away the lads' (i.e. come......
Endurance Record
Sir: In Correlli Bamett's review of Captain Barker's book Beyond 'Endurance' (Books, 17 May), he seems to go out of his way to highlight the author's attack on my late father,......
Misapplied
Sir: It is sad that the estimable Sheridan Morley, drama critic, can write (Arts, 3 May) that Barrie's plays 'have been more honoured in the breach than the obser- vance' — a......
An Englishman Abroad
Sir: I am sorry to see that Professor Gavin Stamp, once regarded as the archetypal Englishman (was he not the original Young Fogey?), now finds it prudent to suck up to his......
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