25 MARCH 2000, page 34

From Major General Ken Perkins Sir: Jamie Shea (diary, 18

March) claims that, during its intervention in Kosovo, Nato 'took maximum steps to avoid civilian casualties, even at the risk of a loss in mili- tary effectiveness'. It did......

Changing People Is Wrong

From Professor Stephen Senn Sir: It may have been David Bradbury, or perhaps it was Malcolm Lodge, who drew attention to the tendency among critics and public to confuse the two......

Letters Our Tone's Mask

From Mr Frederick Forsyth Sir: Your columnist Bruce Anderson (Pol- itics, 18 March) was percipient to draw attention to the Blairites' deep loathing of Britain and her people.......

From Mr Simon Morgan Sir: I Have Been Watching The

career of my erstwhile fellow student and JCR president of St Catherine's College, Oxford, the pre- sent Secretary of State for Northern Ire- land, with increasing irritation.......

Newsnight's Awkward Squad From Mr Mark Mardell Sir: All Of

us hacks are occasionally asked to roast a few old chestnuts on a slow day, but Stephen Glover's thoughts on News- night (No news is bad news', 18 March) are so mouldy as to......

Nato's Shame

From Mr John Laugh/and Sir: I was intrigued by Ann Cooper's admis- sion (Letters, 18 March) that the Serb broad- caster RTS had 'played a limited role in incit- ing ethnic......