The Problem With Pakistan
Sir: It is preposterous that Elliot Wilson pleads for the bailing out of Pakistan (‘Britain can’t afford a failed Pakistan’, 15 November). The country is not facing a natural......
Sock Horror
Sir: Venetia Thompson’s shock at finding cocaine in a sock (‘Cocaine in my sock drawer’, 15 November) reminds me of a similar quandary faced some years ago by an acquaintance of......
Brown’s Scorched Earth
Sir: Fraser Nelson (‘How to fund tax cuts’, 15 November) and your leading article both point out the desirability of tax cuts, but acknowledge that there is little scope for......
Radio Days
Sir: Kate Chisholm is wrong (Arts, 15 November) when she says the financing of the BBC World Service by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office is a hangover from the days when it was......
Upmarket Crudity
Sir: Apologists for the BBC cite the current adaptation of Little Dorrit as showing the high quality of its production. Perhaps they missed the line, inserted by the......
Some Rump
Sir: James Forsyth (‘Tory lessons for the Republicans’, 15 November) refers to Barack Obama’s 365 electoral college votes compared with John McCain’s 173. In terms of the......
Wrong Song
Sir: Having reread my letter (Letters, 15 November) about Matthew Parris’s article on (among other things) Australian birds, something struck me as amiss. So I checked the......
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