21 APRIL 1990, page 21

No Room At The Dti

Sir: May I add factual colour to Adrian Berry's letter (7 April) in which he com- ments on the obstruction of industry by the Department of Trade and Industry. Next month, an......

One For The Price Of Two

Sir: I see from Anthony Howard's Diary (31 March) that London Transport have now caught on to the how-to-double-your- profit-in-one-go principle. This is something the fashion......

Long-distance Sneeze

Sir: E.D.J. Haty (Letters, 24 March) ex- emplifies complete nonsense with 'Sneez- ing is 4ft 9ins'. Surely there is no nonsense in this. Commonly I sneeze 4ft 1 lins and on one......

Moaners

Sir: I am sure we all occasionally share Ruth Rees's view of political parties (`I-low not to win friends', 14 April), namely, a plague on both their houses. But are Ms Rees's......

Letters

Taxing traditions Sir: The proposition (Leading article, 17 March) that the poll tax is somehow in keeping with broad Tory principles was unconvincing, not least because there......

Great Anarch

Sir: The writing of my father, Herbert Read, may or may not have been 'tenden- tious and utopian' as Giles Auty suggests (Arts, 7 April), but he was an anarchist, not a......