21 APRIL 2001, page 30

Grand National Safety

From Jane Davies Sir: The photograph of the mud-spattered, exhausted winner of this year's Grand National appears to have upset Simon Barnes (Sport. 14 April). Neither jockeys......

Common Misunderstanding

From Mr Paul Giles Sir: John Major takes Alastair Campbell to task for describing comprehensive schools as 'bog-standard' (`Vote Labour — if you want to be ruled by lies', 7......

What Scotland Needs

From Mr Bruce Leeming Sir: Tim Luckhurst ('Scotland the terrified', 14 April) makes the Englishman's typically wrong deduction from his experiences in Scotland about the......

Lacklustre Lib Dems

From Mr Marshall Billot Sir: Peter Mandelson is correct ('What Hague must do now', 14 April). The Tories have not provided effective opposition, thereby enabling the Labour......

Fairyland Forlorn

From Mr Michael McMahon Sir: The answer to the question posed at the head of Paul Johnson's column 'What would Shakespeare have said of the footand-mouth mess? (And another......

Unfair To Wessex Girl

From Mrs Jennifer Miller Sir: Re Stephen Glover's 'The Countess yielded to blackmail and behaved like a chump; conspiracy theorists are in heaven' (Media studies, 7 April).......