Running Skills

Sir: At the risk of receiving a bump on my own head from Taki, it seems only fair to point out that Valery Borzov is not the only white man since 1960 to have won the 100 metres......

Grown-up Toys

Sir: So Christopher Fildes thinks banks ought not to be the City's playthings. Might I suggest that manufacturing indus- try too should be taken away from the children? Stephen......

Long Days

Sir: Magnus Linklater's account (`The death of my paper', 1 August) of the life and death of the London Daily News was salutary, but I am growing tired of the breathless,......

Glas Houses

Sir: Glasnost is derived from glas, an old word for 'voice' which can be found in all but the smallest dictionaries. One of your correspondents (Letters, 26 September) thinks,......

Inimitable Byng

Sir: It was an immense pleasure to see Alec Guinness's tribute to Douglas Byng (5 September). It saddens me that he never got any honours for his contribution to our lives in......

Letters Façadism

Sir: John Bryson's tirade (Letters, Septem- ber) against preserving façades only of buildings expresses a fashionable but naïve attitude. Innumerable buildings are of composite......

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