Bill-bored

Sir: I feel that the fracas with Bill Wells is becoming a bore. However just two points. Mabyn Fletcher is female, aged 77, whose earning days are over, but whose working days......

Agony

Sir: Why didn't my parent sexually abuse me? Didn't they find me attractive? What is wrong with me? I think I should be told. Mathew Fletcher Souldem Mill, Bicester, Oxfordshire......

Racing Green

Sir: Nigella Lawson's piece on sandwiches in the City (1 August) implies that 'British Racing Green' is a particular shade of green; it is not — although green is the British......

Letters Threat To Classics

Sir: It has been announced that the 'nation- al core curriculum' will take up between 80 and 90 per cent of the school timetable. Since that leaves three to six periods a week......

Mitigative

Sir: I stand corrected by your correspon- dent in the British Embassy Muscat (Let- ter, 22 August.) I make no bones about a somewhat carefree attitude towards papis- tical......

Sweet Waste Of Effort

Sir: I continue to be puzzled by the label Marxist-Leninist which you and many other papers attach to the government of Nicaragua (Leading article, 15 August). It is not that to......

Misbehaviour

Sir: In a book review (15 August), Colin Welch writes: 'I fully share Inglis's and West's contempt for the behaviourist heresy. Of this one might say that it was produced by......