1 JUNE 1991, page 23

Taste Of France

Sir: J. B. Kelly does not explain (`Touj ours la blague', 4 May) why he is so unhappily marooned in Marssac-sur-Tarn, near Albi in south-west France. His misanthropy is his own......

Sir: You Were Correct To Point Out That 'the United

States spends more than four times as much per head on health as Great Britain, and Germany twice as much, yet their statistical indicators of health are, if anything, slightly......

Plane Stupid

Sir: Mary Ann Sieghart's experience at Heathrow (`Taken for a terrorist', 18 May) is not confined to United Airlines. As a very frequent traveller between London and the United......

Letters Doctor In Distress

Sir: You appear to believe that the NHS is overmanned (Leading article, 4 May), staffed by inefficient and unskilled workers and overburdened by non-productive staff. You seem......