Charles Moore, new editor of the 'Daily Telegraph', failing to find a current television programme that he enjoys I will always remember the look in that horse's eyes at that moment. You could see the memories there and the wish that he could be back...

Eleni Kyriacou Editor, New Woman London WC2

Jon Barker, Cardiff

Mr Wheatcroft may also be interested to know that Jose Antonio's father, General Miguel Primo de Rivera, proclaimed himself dictator of Spain after a military coup in 1923 with the support of Alfonso XIII. Alfonso called him "my Mussolini". Primo de ...

The main reason for the pursuit of an Australian republic is to rid ourselves of such an antiquated impediment as colonial monarchy. The right of the people of Australia is to have a citizen of our own land as our head of state, to stand publicly and...

Various Christian organisations run excellent mother-and-baby homes where women receive support and counsel- ling (and a home, if necessary) during what is a very trau- matic time. There, with real guidance and help, they can decide, given time, whet...

It was a fancy way of saying to the people who let those prisoners escape, "How could you be so stupid?" Stupidity used not, however, to be the main thing about naivety, which was more to do with artlessness, a different matter. Robert's French dicti...

Last week Mr Hurd began his new job at NatWest Bank, providing "services of a promotional or ambassadorial nature" as well as advice on global political and economic issues. For this - and for those who remember the days when Britain was a manufactur...

"It is an often grim environment," he observed, "a wasteland of litter, broken toys and rubbish bags." His article is, you might think, a searing indictment of the run-down public housing and inadequate state education, the absence of jobs and nurser...

William Faulkner served 179 days as a trainee on course 42 at No 4 school of Military Aeronautics at Toronto University. He never, in that time, left terra firma. Nevertheless, back in Oxford, he affected the stigmata of distinguished combat in fligh...

Instead of reading Bulmer's annual report in W11 perhaps Mr Patten should visit the row upon row of cider apple trees that Bulmer and others have planted in Herefordshire and there he will see one of the limitations of "environmental best practice": ...

This anecdote comes from Linda Melvern's The Ultimate Crime, a long and highly critical history published as the UN now reaches its half-century. As Melvern reveals, the incident was half-mythical. It did happen, but not during the celebrations and n...

Andric did not write those words in a "strange letter in 1921", as Mr Tanner suggests. They appear in his story, A letter from 1920, published after the Second World War. The words are spoken by a character in the story, a Jew who decides to leave Bo...

As the reported evidence of incitement to racial hatred was about as stark as it is possible to imagine, the only reason the CPS could plausibly have held fire is a belief that the "public interest" would not be best served by a trial. Supplying the ...

It is curious also that he should champion improvements in public health rather than vaccination as a means of eradicating infectious disease - when did the two methods declare themselves to be in opposition? Dr R A Fisken Bedale, North Yorkshire

Sir: While welcoming the Millennium Commissioners' plans to fund large- scale projects to mark the advent of a new century, I do find it very sad that one such scheme involves the rebuilding of the Crystal Palace. We will never move forward as a coun...

Sir: Yes, I am lonely and depressed. I write as a divorced mother-of- three in response to Angela Lambert's article as I would like to share my experiences with a dating agency. From my first phone call in answer to an ad in the local paper, I deduce...

Sir: Polly Toynbee's article "Politicians are the true philistines" (18 October) asserts that our Royal Family usurps the place in our heritage that rightfully belongs to great architects, writers and artists. By contrast, politicians in countries wi...

Sir: Anyone reading Liz Hunt's article (Magazine: "Wheeze", 14 October) might have mistakenly thought that the number of people dying from asthma is increasing and that much of this is due to the drug treatments they receive. It is not as simple as t...

From the other side of the mirror it looks very different. Anyone who uses the subways or bus stations in the black areas of a major US city will be familiar with the sound of Minister Farrakhan's voice blaring out from a portable machine next to a s...

He fixed me with his gimlet eye and replied thus: "When the Sunday Express runs a two-page feature on what you keep in your garage, and the Calvin Klein photographer tells you that the shot will look better if you keep your thighs slightly parted - t...

Sir: Surprising, and a tad ironic, to read such a morally censorious and narrow-minded interpretation of the single life by Angela Lambert (Section Two: "Will you be lonesome tonight?", 19 October). With a subject like this it must be very tempting t...

Sir: Polly Toynbee has got it wrong! Referring to Jenny Lee, she writes: "by the Seventies, Labour had lost that vision of high art for everyone" ("Politicians are the true philistines", 18 October). I was Shadow Minister for the Arts from 1970-73 bu...

What's more, their plans are endorsed by the TUC and the major local authority associations. Even the Archbishop of Canterbury has a kindly word to say for them. Fantasy? South of the border, undoubtedly yes. But this would be the English equivalent ...