26 FEBRUARY 2000, page 30

Rhodri's Muscle

From Mr Christopher Booker Sir: May I leap to defend Rhodri Morgan against Bruce Anderson's charge (Politics, 19 February) that he is a man who 'always speaks from the heart and......

Goldoni Betrayed

From Professor G.H. Mc William Sir: Isn't it time you got yourself a new the- atre critic? Sheridan Morley's enthusiastic review of Goldoni's The Servant to Two Masters (Arts,......

Police Flashers

From Mr Harry Cotterell Sir: I was interested to read that London Underground has banned flash photogra- phy from stations as it can temporarily blind drivers (Banned wagon, 19......

From Robert Service Sir: As Someone Who Teaches Russian And

East European studies at Oxford and who sometimes (but not 'invariably') polishes my shoes (invariably made in my native Northampton) with a toothbrush, I suspect I may be one......

Bitter Lessons

From Mr Gregory K Pilkington Sir: Your Country Life correspondent demonstrates (19 February) the gritty com- mon sense of the countryside to which we townies can only aspire.......

From Dr Peter T. King Sir: Every Year I Attempt

to reassure the undergraduates I teach, especially those in their first year, by explaining that no one expects them to produce original philo- sophical ideas and arguments.......

Pay As You Learn

From Dr Eamonn Butler Sir: Your undergraduate authors (`It's time to scrap the Millennium Don', 12 February) might like to know — for I am sure no don has taught them it — that......