Poisoned Heart
Sir: Your report (Portrait of the week, 28 August) of the discovery of the late King Boris's heart in a glass jar in the grounds of his old palace is interesting. If I am right,......
Funny Foreign Language
Sir: Writing from the chief town of Brabant (which he has the grace to spell in its English version 'Brussels' rather than its ludicrous French distortion 'Bruxelles'), John......
Spreading The Word
Sir: As the recently retired headmaster of Ampleforth, I am indignant that Martin Vander Weyer (`Marketing the old school tie', 4 September) should refer to my suc- cessor's......
Voluntary Hordes
Sir: Paul Johnson is wrong to say (And another thing, 5 June) that the Chinese government is kept in power by a conscript army. The People's Liberation Army is composed entirely......
Letters Time For Confession
Sir: John Plender's article ('In the name of God, go', 4 September) was fine as far as it went but it could have gone farther. It could have asked: who are the Church......
Just Readable
Sir: Your reviewer Mark Archer (Books, 4 September) shouldn't knock the Economist as the equivalent of an in-flight magazine. Last week I endured a British Airways flight from......
False Economy
Sir: Dr Dalrymple's proposal (Deserving and undeserving suicides', 28 August) that patients should pay for their own treatment would only make matters far worse. Far from it......
Specator
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