20 AUGUST 1994, page 27

Sir: I Agree With Every Word Of Paul John- Son's

article. In the last year of my service in the army I commanded a Territorial division and was also Deputy Constable at Dover Castle and required to live in Constable's Tower,......

Sir: There Is A Simple Answer To Miss James's Cri

de coeur referring to the curse of mobile telephones. A friend of mine, plagued on a railway journey by incessant ringing followed by inane chatter to which the whole com-......

How Right I Was

Sir: It would have been interesting to learn from Jeremy Paxman CA little local diffi- culty', 13 August) how 12 inner city primary schoolchildren would pass the time of day (or......

Strange Disability

Sir: Nigella Lawson (Television, 13 August) sounds like a stickler for accuracy, and would wish it pointed out that the hapless Keith Floyd got even his quotation wrong. Gerald......

General Woofiness

Sir: Your music critic Peter Phillips (Arts, 13 August) must indeed have cloth ears if he 'doubts that the singing of our choral societies has changed significantly in the last......

True Brats Sir: Martin Vander Weyer's Piece ('we Really...

had it so good', 13 August) is a welcome antidote to the gloom of John Mortimer (Diary, 19 March) and others. To our fellow human beings we British must seem among the most......

Don't Ring Us

Sir: P. D. James (Diary, 13 August) asks for a form of words to silence 'poser' phone pests. I suggest: Did you know that exces- sive use of mobile telephones causes deaf-......

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