14 OCTOBER 2000, page 36

Bruce's Bad Habit

From Dr P. G. Urben Sir: 'Cigarettes are far more dangerous than all the other drugs put together.' Whatever Bruce Anderson (Politics, 7 October) was on when he wrote that is......

Superwit Hague

From Mr Christopher Heneghan Sir: I was fascinated by the symmetry of sev- eral articles in your 30 September edition: Oborne, Wheatcroft and Parris on UK poli- tics, and Mark......

London Grime

From Sir David Nicholas, CBE Sir: I walked down Piccadilly the other after- noon afternoon at about 3 p.m. The litter bins were full to overflowing. In a doorway near the Royal......

Letters Righting African Wrongs

From Mr Tony Leon, MP Sir: Dr Essop Pahad, MP, Minister in the Presidency, South African Government, has now internationalised his usual domestic cocktail of bilious rhetoric,......

Couch Critics

From Mr Bernard Dunstan, RA Sir: Mark Glazebrook, writing about the new Saatchi exhibition (Arts, 23 September), seems to think that there is nothing nowa- days between 'cheeky,......