12 FEBRUARY 2000, page 28

Off Target

From Mr Andrew Gilligan Sir: Geoffrey Hoon's hair-trigger response (Letters, 5 February) to my piece on Tri- dent underlines the Ministry of Defence's sensitivity about this......

Nuclear Reaction

From Mr Malcolm Jackson Sir: One of the small mysteries of the pre- sent age is how the originally vaguely pejora- tive term 'nuclear family' (social isolation, lack of wider......

Letters Red Smoke

From Mr Jonathan Manthorpe Sir: Ross Clark's quip (Banned wagon, 29 January) that perhaps the only hope for white Anglo-Saxon smokers is the discovery that ethnic minorities......

Free The Newt

From Lady Mortimer Sir: Red Ken's heroic plan to ban fox-hunt- ing from Brent is surely to be applauded by all right-thinking people. But he does not go far enough. It is time......