Sense Of Humour

Sir: If Heath's cartoon (11 February) of the water company executive sprawling in the desert sand, watched by a vulture and gasping 'profit', had been aimed at a proper target......

God Save Soviets

Sir: Stephen Handelman's article (`The breaking of the icons', 4 March) alleges that a new personality cult is emerging from the innermost recess of the Russian soul. To avoid......

Fuller Account

Sir: Peter Fuller's rather long and probably even paid for 'letter to the editor' (`Britain in the picture', 4 March) complaining about the very intelligent Mr Mount (as he had......

Smear

Sir: Writing about breast screening and cervical smears Dr Sharon McCullough ('Useless smear campaign', 11 February) suggests that assessing their value is 'vir- tually......

Brown Trousers

Sir: I'm all in favour of you giving trainee journalists a chance to shine. But judging by her piece about the ailing [sic] Fulham Labour Party ('Red rose, thou art sick', 11......

Death Threat

Sir: Auberon Waugh (25 February) depicts Salmon Rushdie as 'cowering under the protection of the British police'. Does he mean a) that the threat of death is not real or b) that......