A Bad Bargain
Sir: It was fascinating to learn that Lord Irvine, whose most famous act as Lord Chancellor has been to spend £59,000 of taxpayers' money on wallpaper, is to spend £60,000 p.a.......
Credit Where It's Not Due
Sir: Attracting false attributions is evidently one of Professor Milton Friedman's many talents. He did not coin the maxim, 'There is no such thing as a free lunch', which is......
Couch Potatoes
Sir: This week we learned that the average American now spends a cumulative 11 years of his lifespan of 72 years watching television. Similar figures apply in the Unit- ed......
A Shropshire Lad
Sir: In `Mind your language' of 4 April, Dot Wordsworth speculated on the Shropshire meaning of the word `dowl' or 'doul'. My mother was born in 1898 in a cottage in south......
Letters Myths About Kenya
Sir: Rupert Wright missed an opportunity when he wrote the article about Lord Delamere (`The Kennedys of Kenya', 11 April). Readers might have been interested to known that the......
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