13 NOVEMBER 2004, page 38

How Foreign Aid Is Wasted

From George Gitros Sir: The article by John Bercow advocating a Tory commitment to higher overseas aid spending (`The Tories must help the poor', 6 November) makes depressing......

From Romil4 , Greenhill

Sir: John Bercow deserves praise for urging the Conservatives to set a timetable to spend 0.7 per cent of national income on aid to the developing world. It was under Edward......

Regionalism Rejected

From Brian Thornton Sir: Matthew Parris was not aware of the result of the vote in the North-East when he wrote his piece (tong live a stubbornly centralised England', 6......

Wilkonarnen!

From Gareth Homfray-Davies Sir: Roger Koppel's article ('When did you last see your fatherland?', 30 October) deserves a warm welcome. His thoughtful and thought-provoking......

A Moment To Savour

From Robert Triggs Sir: Spot on Charles Moor& (The Spectator's Notes, 6 November.) Quite the most satisfying aspect of the Republican victory in the American presidential......

Lives At Risk

From Dr Mary Knowles Sir: Dr Michael Wilks (Letters, 30 October) rightly states, 'The legality of withdrawing artificial nutrition and hydration, and the definition of......

Marathon Monologue

From James Young Sir: Proust's 937-word sentence (Letters, 6 November) is laconic compared with James Joyce's effort at the end of Ulysses. Molly Bloom's 'stream of......

Solar Solutions

From Dr Ronald NC. Douglas Sir: I was very interested to read your special supplement 'The Nuclear Issue' (30 October). In particular, the question of what to do with all that......