Prepare For Coalition
From William MacDougall Sir: I hope Fraser Nelson is mistaken in his talk of a ‘Lib Dem Test’ for Tory policies (‘Cameron’s secret plan’, 29 April). Of course the party should......
Pc Beeb
From Colin Broughton Sir: Rod Liddle is right in suggesting that the fiction of the BBC’s impartiality should be addressed by more openness (‘BBC staff’s views should be open’,......
Fascists Are Socialists
From Frederick Forsyth Sir: Lord Tebbit (Letters, 29 April) is quite right to rebuke idle journalism which relentlessly repeats untruths instead of analysing the meaning of the......
Lions And Donkeys
From Sir Simon Day Sir: I was most interested by the article by Lord Ashcroft to mark the 150th anniversary of the Victoria Cross (‘Conspicuous bravery celebrated’, 22 April),......
Freudian Quip
From William Oddie Sir: Roger Scruton (‘An unhappy birthday to Sigmund the Fraud’, 29 April) could have quoted G.K. Chesterton, who prophetically warned against most of the......
Little Americans
From Steve Spurrell Sir: Allow me to clear up Jason Boatright’s misunderstanding about the ‘strange criticisms’ Europeans so often make of Americans (Letters, 22 April). There......
Still Alive
From Timothy Williams Sir: Frederic Raphael writes: ‘Papon was tried and condemned for war crimes only as an old man, in the late 1990s, and died in prison’ (Books, 29 April).......