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Example Beats Edict

From Mr Ian Maitland Sir: Your leading article (9 February) is compelling but omits a key factor — public distrust of government 'experts'. who, we suspect, will write whatever......

Cantnar's Credo

From Mr Jeremy Harris Sir: Mr Hobson ('Losing our religion', 2 February) asserts that the article by the Archbishop of Canterbury on Afghanistan and Iraq made no mention of the......

Why Islam Must Dominate

From Mr Randhir Singh Bains Sir: Theodore Dalrymple (Creatures of the cultural cringe', 2 February) rightly blames multiculturalism for leading young Muslims to terrorism.......

No Dignity, No Deference

From Mr George L. Black Sir: Bruce Anderson ('The threat to the monarchy', 9 February) regrets the decline in esteem of the royal family and blames the media for this unhappy......

The Justice Of Inequality

From Mr Henry Cohen Sir: Alasdair Palmer's synopsis of the late Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State and Utopia ('The price of freedom', 9 February) was enjoyable enough to make me......

Young And Foolish

From Sir Tim Rice Sir: Your promising new theatre critic, Toby Young, is showing worrying signs of a serious affliction that affects many of his kind, viz.. slagging off a......

'punch' Plea

From Professor Peter Mellini Sir: Would your readers have any anecdotes or suggestions to help me write a history/biography of Punch, 1841-1992, another national institution......