9 MARCH 1996, page 24

Not To Be Taken Seriously

Not to be taken seriously Sir: Joe Haines's diatribe (Letters, 3 February) against 'the right of any scoundrelly MP to defame and lie about a private citizen within the......

Not Guilty

L E T TER S Not guilty Sir: One thing emerges clearly enough from Anne McElvoy's article ('Being Russian means never saying sorry', 2 March): 'corporate guilt' is quite......

[sir: Surely Anne Mcelvoy, In Her Very...]

Sir: Surely Anne McElvoy, in her very interesting piece, misses one rather important aspect of Russian psychology: its atavistic taste for authority, which goes back to long......

Renaissance Piety

Renaissance piety Sir: As the descendant of Pius II, a Renaissance Pope who, before donning the robe, travelled to England and bedded many local beauties (and boasted about it......

[sir: Bruce Bernard Finishes His Admonish-...]

Sir: Bruce Bernard finishes his admonish- I ment of Paul Johnson's (silly) opinions on Cezanne with: 'I beg you to keep him away from the visual arts, on which ... he is not......

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Anti-english Iceberg

Anti-English iceberg Sir: Alan Cochrane says ('Flower of Thatcherism', 2 March) that there is 'a widespread belief that the whole of Great Britain rejoiced in England's triumph......

[sir: In The Ordinary Course Of Genetics, A...]

Sir: In the ordinary course of genetics. a nation of 50 million sports-obsessed morons will defeat one of five million similarly limited idiots 19 times out of 20. If the Scots......