Pavement Artists

Sir: Molly Scott (Letters, 10 April), in fol- lowing the fate of Jeffrey Bernard and falling victim to the capital's pavements, draws attention to the question of compen- sation......

Hat Trick

Sir: Simon Heifer is indeed a perfection- ist.(`But is this a Tory government?' 10 April). 1 applied his test, ministry by min- istry, to the three previous administrations.......

Referred To Dr Bernard

Sir: If John Osborne (Diary, 17 April) is so muddled about his diabetes that he thinks he can get a hypo from forgetting his evening insulin, the Daughters of Eve are not going......

Experts' Fall-out

Sir: Piers Paul Read's article (Exploding the myth of Chernobyl', 17 April) would be laughable if it were not so damaging to a group of people blighted by one of the most......

Not Quite Chess

Sir: If your chess correspondent is to use your columns (Chess, 17 April) for partisan pieces about the organisation of the world championship, I think we should be told what......

Pull The Other One

Sir: It really is too much. Paul Johnson, the sentimental, inoffensive old buffer, content in front of the television with his grandson, Mindful only of his own business and......