Key Question

Sir: Debt, debt everywhere. Britain really is in trouble if — as Fraser Nelson suggests (Politics, 15 March) — the Conservative opposition is shying away from the ‘obvious......

Simple Remedy

Sir: I am glad Craig Goldsack, chairman of the Department of Anaesthesia, University College Hospital, has such faith in the complaints system of the Healthcare Commission......

Rough Trade

Sir: Even for a self-described ‘posh bird’, Venetia Thompson (‘A Sloane in gangsta land’, 15 March) seems to be drawn to rough trade(rs) like a moth to the flame. Now that one......

Atheist Ramblings

Sir: So Gus Teljer (Letters, 15 March) thinks Martin Rowson’s ‘atheist ramblings’ show him, not only to have a ‘lost soul’ to be impertinently prayed for, but to be ‘a tedious......

Tin Ear

Sir: Sir John Weston (Letters, 15 March) deplores Westminster Abbey’s refusal to allow the use of the King James Bible at a memorial service, and asks if it is now officially......

Dubious Procedure

Sir: In contrasting her Chinese medical treatment favourably with that received back in England, I suspect that Tessa Keswick (‘If you need a doctor, go to China’, 15 March) is......

Distinguished Lineage

Sir: Taki wonders (High life, 15 March) ‘what’s wrong with keeping it in the family?’ The answer surely is that every family, no matter how distinguished its lineage, will......