28 MARCH 1992, page 29

By A Short Head

Sir: Since qualification some years ago and throughout my subsequent training in surgery, I had become convinced that I was the most worn and cynical doctor in the NHS. Happily,......

Crime Should Pay

Sir: Unlike Sarah Webster (Letters, 14 March) I enjoyed Mr De'Ath's article about his experiences of a bail hostel. In any civilised country a gentleman like Mr De'Ath would be......

Guff And Golf

Sir: Many of us are obliged by our jobs to write occasional letters, though our exper- tise lies in quite other directions. Then to have our letters judged by the flawless stan-......

Albanian Sense Of Humour

Sir: You wonder (Diary, 21 March) what would make an Albanian laugh. A friend of mine, the late Eric Lister of the Portal Gallery, visited Albania long before it was......

Parts Private And Public

Sir: I assume Martyn Harris (Arts, 14 March) was serious in his request for com- ments on the ethics of peeing in front of a lady in a Wagon Lit while holding the Sovereign's......

Breaking The Code

Sir: Further to 'Morse the pity' (Arts, 14 March) concerning the standard of writing in the new Inspector Morse series, may I say it would have been contrary to the real Morse......

Not Sure, Surely

Sir: Concerning both his and his wife's lack of religious faith, Neil Kintock said before the 1987 election, 'We're not even sure enough to be agnostics.' If you can't be sure......

Sir: Martyn Harris, Writing Of The Camomile Lawn (14 March)

underesti- mates the expressive power of buttocks and bosoms. He seems to think that they appear so regularly on the box merely to distract the viewer from the banality of story......

Lonely Heart

Sir: Has Margaret Melicharova had an acci- dent with her Tippex (Letters, 21 March)? I have not heard from her these last ten years, yet there is breath in me still. Martin......