Real Life Drama
Sir: John Mortimer is right to say that good dramatic plots are hard to come by (Diary, 26 March). He might have added, however, that they are sometimes there under one's very......
Paupers' Pleas
Sir: 'Rave reviews and true music drama' (Arts, 19 March) are mighty fine things but not fine enough to overcome the fact that the prices at Covent Garden are too bloody high......
Child Labour
Sir: To Dear Mary's correspondent, who recommends a dustpan and brush to clear up Lego (Dear Mary . . ., 26 February), may I make an even better suggestion? — insist that the......
I Spy A Difference
Sir Tom Mackinnon (Letters, 19 March) is morally defective if he cannot distinguish between Oleg Gordievsky, who spied against a totalitarian regime, and Aldrich Ames, who spied......
High Liver
Sir: Concerning Mid's offer of a bottle of retsina for the reader who can guess exactly the percentage of his liver still functioning (High life, 19 March), I suggest 12 per......
A Burn-out Case
Sir: So the bilious Dr Dalrymple has made a diagnosis of 'Dalrymple's Disease' ( If symptoms persist . . . , 19 March). A young woman wishes to understand herself in order to......
Letters Rich Get Richer
Sir: I share John Plender's concern ('An unerring eye for the vulnerable', 19 March) over the mis-selling of personal pensions. Few of us thought that the pensions indus- try......
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