Local Empowerment Denied
Sir: Leo McKinstry’s experience of failing to prevent a wholly unsuitable planning application in a neighbour’s garden (‘Naked greed meets Stalinist control’, 7 June) is sadly......
Sir: In Leo Mckinstry’s Article, He Puts The Blame (as
we all would) at the point where the result disagrees with his wishes. That happens to be the new planning ombudsman, but anomalies of the type he writes about happen at many......
Apostrophic Faith
Sir: Suffering from a condition verging on OCD when it comes to usage of the apostrophe, I am compelled to write in defence of St Thomas’ Hospital to Dot Wordsworth’s suggestion......
Sir: Perhaps Dot Wordsworth Or Another Knowledgeable...
this problem. Travelling on the underground, I pass Barons Court and Earl’s Court. Earl’s Court has a possessive apostrophe, but Barons Court does not. Does this mean that the......
Not Good, But Outstanding
Sir: If, as Matthew Parris asserts, ‘There are no “good” teachers’ (Another voice, 7 June), then there can be no good practitioners of anything. To state that those teachers who......
A Brutish Term
Sir: I cannot be the only reader to be dismayed by the tone all too frequently struck by some of your male contributors. The latest example came in Theodore Dalrymple’s rant......
Rod’s Boy
Sir: Tyler Liddle (Letters, 31 May) sounds like a plea to get a reluctant builder back to work. Peter Fineman Warminster, Wiltshire......
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