7 MARCH 1992, page 24

Stomach Trouble

Sir: Normally I couldn't care less about being collectively insulted by Boris Johnson (Tear and loathing in Antwerp', 1 Febru- ary): I have given up reading him in the Telegraph......

Sir: As An Atheist, Ludovic Kennedy Clearly Does Not Expect

to be going anywhere else after he leaves us, but curiously wants a priest to despatch him. Assuming a man of God is willing to do the job, what words will he employ? Presumably......

Donoughue's Summer

Sir: Your correspondent Mr Prince writes to inform you (Letters, 29 February) that I am recorded as having formally resigned from the London & Bishopsgate companies on 17......

Second Person Singular

Sir: I was interested to read your Diary of 15 February. I too saw the French version of Elizabeth R and found it accurately dubbed (the English original being audible......

Letters Believe It Or Not

Sir: I read with interest Ludovic Kennedy's Diary (8 February) addressing the fact that, whereas so many people no longer 'believe', they nevertheless require some form of......

Guy's Hospital

Sir: Your article, 'Can pay, won't pay', (15 February) makes one think that NHS patients should be billed with the costs of treatment which would be stamped 'Paid on your behalf......

Sir: If Mr Andrew Davies Were A 'poor Man' (letters,

22 February) he would have more chance of prompt medical attention if people who are not poor go private. Does it not occur to Mr Davies, and (alas) count- less people like him,......

Upstairs Downstairs

Sir: Esprit d'escalier (staircase wit) is what one would have liked to say but has thought of, too late, on the staircase outside. Com- ing down the staircase from The Spectator......