3 FEBRUARY 2001, page 25

Moore On Hunting

From H.M. Thornton Sir; Charles Moore, in defending hunting (`Life, liberty and the pursuit of Charlie', 27 January), calls in aid the example of Jews circumcising their baby......

From Mrs Julia Pickles Sir: To Write About Hunting You

need in your nostrils the scent of horse sweat, leather and the soil of old England; you need the atavistic music in your ears of questing hounds, and the joy and terror in your......

From Mr George Pitcher Sir: I Was A Libertarian On

the hunting issue until I read Charles Moore's emetic article. His dewy-eyed nostalgia for the old social order (in which, naturally, he would appear near the top) admires the......

From Ms Lesley Bryant Sir: Congratulations On The...

by Charles Moore. I think it is the best I have ever read. L.F. Bryant Crediton. Devon......

From Mr Nick Gray Sir: The Number Of Foxes Hounded

to death or put in mortal fear by a tiny minority — who, if Charles Moore is right, are engaged on a natural pastime — is infinitesimal compared with the number of creatures......

Lost For Words

From Mr Andrew Wilson Sir: Alexander Chancellor gave the correct version of the Auberon Waugh joke about Dominic Lawson (And another thing, 27 January). When he felt his......

From Mr J.h.c. Leach Sir: It Is Hardly Likely That

Winston Churchill's last words were spoken to James Cameron at a dinner hosted by Lord Beaverbrook, if only because Beaverbrook died before Churchill — in 1964 — whereas......

Left Or Right?

From Mr David Watkins Sir: Matthew Parris (Another voice, 27 January) argues that the Left of the Tory party is needed to save it, as the Blairite Right saved Labour. The answer......