Testing Delays

Sir: We know that roughly half of all driving tests result in a pass (see `. . . and statistics', 23 April). The overall pass rate for 1987 was 50 per cent and for 1986 49 per......

Ethnology

Sir: Mr Reeves's patronising letter (7 May) does him little credit. Had he done his homework he would have known that 'the nations' (ta ethne) could not conceivably mean 'those......

Penalising Charity

Sir: Alexandra Artley wrote a most in- teresting article, 'Living with the Damocles Syndrome' (7 May). She has really hit the nail on the head with regard to the difficul- ties......

Mind My Bytes

Sir: As I am about to submit a Ph.D. thesis on rule induction, which Myles Harris suggests is at the heart of artificial intelli- gence, I hope I am sufficiently qualified to......

Dear Old Kim

Sir: Before Murray Sayle (`My friend Kim', 21 May) quotes again from The Great Gatsby, he should give himself the pleasure of re-reading it. He will be re- minded that the......

Sir: Dear Old Kim, With His Talent For Friendship, His

shy stammer and his adoles- cent dreams. How deeply he must have felt Ramsay MacDonald's betrayal of the work- ers and the ungentlemanly behaviour of Herr Dollfuss. Dear old......

Letters

Gibraltar inquest Sir: Paul Johnson says, 'ITV and the BBC have now, on the face of it, prejudiced a court hearing in a crown colony.' This is cod-legal jargon of the type......