23 JULY 1994, page 23

Defending Readers

Sir: 'Actual broad-sheet readers are meaner, or greedier, or less discriminato- ry than I thought' (Paul Johnson, And another thing, 2 July). As an old broad-sheet reader I......

Taking Exception

Sir: It may be that no journalist should cast aspersions at what another finds to fill a column, but Richard Littlejohn (Diary, 16 July) is not being altogether fair. He accus-......

Angleterre, I Love You

Sir: I agree with Mrs Carla Powell's view concerning England and its people (`She's Italian, you know', 9 July). I am a frog (as you say!) having links with England for more......

Inventing Essex Man

Sir: Julian Critchley takes me to task for writing that my friend Simon Heifer discov- ered Essex Man (Letters, 16 July). He claims it was he, not Mr Heifer, who first......

Letters - An Old-fashioned View

Sir: Being of the older generation I recall a time when debt was shameful; if you couldn't afford something you couldn't have it. Martin Vander Weyer ('Bankrupt but not broke',......

Human Bar Codes

Sir: Since Dr Theodore Dalrymple has now been asked to swipe bar codes for each of his patients I wonder how long it will be before bar codes are tattooed on people (If symptoms......

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