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Letters

Australian letters

12 September 2015

9:00 AM

12 September 2015

9:00 AM

Mistaken identity

Sir: Taki is mistaken in his column of 29 August 2015. Louis XVIII was not a ‘fat Napoleonic usurper’. He was a portly restored Bourbon legitimist. Please let Taki know.
Steven

Island Bay, New Zealand


Biblical suggestions

Sir: I wish to offer a couple of comments on Matthew Parris’s observation that although his ‘Christian atheism’ provides him with a moral framework, he feels the urge to help people in need, yet feels let down because Jesus offers no guidance about who to help and to what degree (‘Christianity is silent on my great moral dilemma’, 5 September).

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