11 NOVEMBER 1989, page 26

Letters

Ballot coercion Sir: I was brought up to believe that the secrecy of the ballot box was sacrosanct. This was so as to prevent the possible co-ercion of a voter. For me such......

Fuse Update

Sir: I am sorry to report that Peter Brookes's cartoon (4 November) is out of date. Because of something called BS7114, the fireworks I bought this year had no blue .touchpaper.......

Green Pint

Sir: By now, everyone you meet has an opinion to express upon green issues. Many of us, an increasing number every day, make some concession to environ- mental friendliness. Are......

Poor Memory

Sir: Richard Ingrams tears a strip off 'W. J. West, historian' (Letters, 20 October) for claiming that, by the summer of 1963, Ingrams had been editing Private Eye `without a......

Abortion Legacy

Sir: How interesting was Alexandra Artley's article CA foundling father to our children', 21 October) on Thomas Coram's 18th century response to 'babies and young children, some......

A Dictionary Of Cant

Nigel Burke TERRORIST. A respected leader of the Commonwealth in larval form. GREY AREA. The unpalatable mixture of black propaganda and whitewash. HOMOPHOBIA. A......