7 OCTOBER 1995, page 34

Medium Secure Beds

Sir: I write with reference to your editorial of 30 September, 'Careless policy costs lives'. There is no evidence that care in the community has led to an increase in the......

Oh Dear Me, No

Sir: I assume it was Anne Applebaum's taste for the ironic which led her to claim in Pull of eastern menace', 23 September, that it was a 'moral drive' which 'settled the......

Sit. Vac.

Sir: Much has been written about a national minimum wage, the sum being mentioned £3.65 per hour. I am trying to hire a cleaner for my home, a modest two-bedroomed house with......

Mea Culpa

Sir: In your article, 'Beware of Greeks bearing degrees', 2 September, you quote statements attributed to me. I now realise that my words will cause offence, not only to some......

Muck-up

Sir: I think you might agree that we would enjoy Keats's sonnet rather less if it began 'Muck have I travelled in the realms of gold'. I am not Keats, but I want to be properly......

A Trading Nation

Sir: I enjoyed Paul Johnson's Swiftian Pro- posal (And another thing, 30 September) that moneyed Chinese immigrants should be encouraged to finance the export of the black......