24 MARCH 1990, page 24

Sir: The Rates Were Sometimes Unfair But In Fact Most

people live in the house they can afford. You find few millionaires in three- bedroom semis and few paupers in castles. Most people in our society are reason- ably prosperous......

Swings And Roundabouts

Sir: Noel Malcolm (Politics, 24 February) argues that a Labour majority at the next election is near to being statistically im- possible. He is quite wrong. He states at one......

Frock Tactics

Sir: Rodney Milnes's notice (Arts, 10 February) of Prince Igor at the Royal Opera House made reference to the Polovtsian Choral Society standing motionless — albeit in more......

Sir: I Would Like To Add My Voice To The

campaign against this so-called 'Pole tax'. I think it's jolly unfair. Michael Moszynski 14 Linhope Street, London NW1......

Chinese Onomastics

Sir: Chinese cartographers (Letters, 10 February) may have fallen into unwitting self-parody by changing 'es to Ts and conveniently forgetting Tibetan place- names, but Adrian......

Letters

Forget the poll tax Sir: In your Leading article of 17 March, on the vexed matter of the poll tax, you argue that the Tories should not run scared as it is considerably fairer......