7 DECEMBER 2002, page 36

Good Men, Bad Kit

From Mr Gordon Bourne Sir: I read with interest Corporal Bussey's letter (30 November). It is comforting to hear from a man of his experience that the standard of recruits is no......

Brotherly Values

From Mr M.J. Coleman Sir: As a former pupil, it saddens me to see the continued use of one man's bitter personal experience to blacken both the name of the Christian Brothers......

No Oriental Mussolini

From Mr Roger T. Uren Sir: We from the West would see China in much clearer terms (`China is a fascist country', 23 November) if we sought to understand it in its own historical......

The Useless Un

From Mr Alan Anderson Sir: Hugh Thomas ('How to save the world', 23 November) argues that the current efforts to disarm Iraq should be expanded into a campaign to place all......

The Sounds Of Shakespeare

From Mr Richard Adams Sir: Frank Johnson (Shared opinion, 30 November) is puzzled, like many other people, over Tolstoy's rejection of Shakespeare's repute by saying that it is......