They Did Their Best

Sir: Norman Stone remarks (Books, 18 Jan- uary) that nowadays it must often enough be downright tiresome to be royal: certainly this must be so when popular smears on the memory......

Local Opinion

Sir: How interested I was to catch up, in your pages, with the recent career of my former colleague, Alan Amos (`That night on the Heath', 18 January). Few, if any, on Enfield......

Compassion Fatigue

Sir: Does nothing bring tears to the eyes of Mr Matthew Parris (Another voice, 11 Jan- uary)? Stephen Cass 11 Hopton Lane, Mirfield, West Yorkshire......

Letters On The Side Of The Angels

Sir: So, the tat is out of the bag. Real Con- servatives have been brought out of the closet by Mr Bruce Anderson in his thought-provoking article (Politics, 18 Jan- uary). Real......

Down The Tube

Sir: I suspect Mr Henry Kelly does not trav- el by Tube ('Why Blair beggars belief, 11 January). Every day, I have to run the gauntlet down Holloway Road, past tramps who lie......

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