30 MAY 1998, page 26

Social Security

Sir: Your readers will be relieved to learn from Mr Mandelson that he had no hand in the rescinding of Paul Routledge's appoint - ment as political editor of the Express, or in......

The Numbers Game

Sir: Mark Steyn's new economic rule — any business, there's only room for three major players, plus a few piffling "niche servers" ' — is absolute codswallop (`Three's company',......

Potwell And Colornendy

Sir: Ross Davies (Letters, 9 May) is right to say that north Wales is not a gastronomic paradise. However, fortunately for one who lives there, there are more than a few......

Old School Ties

Sir: Your leader of 16 May refers to Peter Mandelson as 'only dimly aware of the pools of poverty, indolence and human decline'. While it is fashionable to jump on the bandwagon......

Sins Of The Fathers

Sir: For one moment I had hoped that Andrew Brown, in his article on the next Pope (Hume? A Czech? Or an undry Mar- tini?, 25 April), might be a rare exception among modern......