Letters Middle-aged Whinger

Sir: What a whinger Jeremy Putley is (`Life begins at forty, 23 February). I too am both qualified and experienced and have just been made redundant — but I'm 59, not 46 — and......

Sir: As A 45-year-old Purchasing Executive In My Fifth Month

of unemployment, I can identify strongly with the frustration ex- pressed by Jeremy Putley. Ageism, however, is not the only form of discrimination which can beset those seek-......

Sir: I Think Jeremy Putley's Account Of His Tribulations At

the hands of ageists is very misleading. I too am a professional over 45, and I have been unemployed since Christmas. Yet I haven't found it so tough in the job market. I had......

Brainless Argument

Sir: Your leading article (`The brainless drain', 23 February) was a risible mixture of propaganda from the Department of Education and Science (the only organisa- tion in the......

Getting Warmer

Sir: In Noel Malcolm's bleeding hearts column for Lady Thatcher (`Margaret Thatcher: the silent years', 16 February), he might have added that in all her 11 years as Prime......

Tender Trap

Sir: In the winter issue of its Bulletin, HM Treasury claims that, 'Legal tender is a specialised legal concept with little practic- al significance for the acceptability of a......

Freedom Fighters

Sir: With all due respect to Noel Malcolm, he is incorrect to state (Margaret Thatch- er: the silent years', 16 February) that apart from the IEDSS there is 'not a single......