Defending Readers
Sir: 'Actual broad-sheet readers are meaner, or greedier, or less discriminato- ry than I thought' (Paul Johnson, And another thing, 2 July). As an old broad-sheet reader I......
Taking Exception
Sir: It may be that no journalist should cast aspersions at what another finds to fill a column, but Richard Littlejohn (Diary, 16 July) is not being altogether fair. He accus-......
Angleterre, I Love You
Sir: I agree with Mrs Carla Powell's view concerning England and its people (`She's Italian, you know', 9 July). I am a frog (as you say!) having links with England for more......
Inventing Essex Man
Sir: Julian Critchley takes me to task for writing that my friend Simon Heifer discov- ered Essex Man (Letters, 16 July). He claims it was he, not Mr Heifer, who first......
Letters - An Old-fashioned View
Sir: Being of the older generation I recall a time when debt was shameful; if you couldn't afford something you couldn't have it. Martin Vander Weyer ('Bankrupt but not broke',......
Human Bar Codes
Sir: Since Dr Theodore Dalrymple has now been asked to swipe bar codes for each of his patients I wonder how long it will be before bar codes are tattooed on people (If symptoms......
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