4 JULY 1992, page 27

Who Governs?

Sir: In these days of women's equality, should we not be referring to the UO rather than the UK? P. Kelsey 69 Fulwich Road, Dartford, Kent......

The Poetry Of Insurance

Sir: Auberon Waugh quite unjustifiably names the Sun Alliance in the course of his scatter-gun attack upon British institutions (Another voice, 27 June) which he now charges......

Charming But Worthless

Sir: I am not surprised Joseph Alsop was so besotted with President Kennedy (Books, 6 June). So many writers and intellectuals were. Alsop, though, ought to have kept a bit more......

Our Man Was Right

Sir: Fascinating though it was, Simon Hef- fer's article on 'The turning of the Tories' (13 June) surprised me in one respect. 'All through the referendum campaign,' he wrote,......

Terrestrial Football Fan

Sir: Dominique Jackson wonders why the BBC bid alongside BSkyB for the televising of football (`Reach for the Sky', 20 June). Far from suffering an identity crisis, our aim......

Terrified Reader

Sir: Lord Vinson (Letters, 13 June) writes: `Manifestly twice as many people mean twice as much pollution, poverty and envi- ronmental degradation.' I wonder how many times the......

Riddle And Answer

Sir: Will somebody please tell me the dif- ference between a fence and the banks holding the Maxwell pensioners' millions? Both are receivers of stolen goods. The fence will......