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Id Charade

From John Hunter Sir: You seem to believe that Conservatives have spent the last four years ‘standing up for local and national democracy, and against the tendency of the......

From Richard Rex Sir: In The Unlikely Event Of The

Prime Minister’s being able to bulldoze through his proposals for identity cards before the levers of power are prised from his frenzied grasp, I propose to refuse compliance......

Not From Nowhere

From Neil Glanfield Sir: Martin Vander Weyer’s article (‘Stagnant Britain’, 28 May) on declining social mobility might have been even more powerful if he had known a little more......

Middle-class, Educated And Expectant ‘somewhere’. Jamie...

to prove the rule, but rather the rule to prove the increasingly rare exception. Neil Glanfield Harlow, Essex End of a ‘panacea’ From Denis Mollison Sir: There is a good reason......

Episcopal Contrasts

From Timothy O’Sullivan Sir: In later life Cardinal Hume regretted choosing the cloister over training for mortal combat in 1941 (Books, 28 May). He would tell anybody who cared......