30 MAY 1987, page 21

Sir: I Read With Sympathy Your Apology Printed On Page

five (16 May). My London telephone has been out of order for over a week and the telephone engineers are most reluctant to give me any idea of when the fault will be put right.......

Pilger

Sir: As I am so far removed from the fort of the Queen's English, you may consider it presumptuous of me to criticise your usage. It's merely a matter of spelling. Your writers......

A First

Sir: Congratulations on the piece by David Hare ('Why I shall vote Labour', 23 May). It is the first sensible thing you have published all year. Penelope Finian 107 Fentiman......

Phoney Service

Sir: In your leading article last week you claim that 'nationalisation does not work'. Presumably privatisation does. How extraordinary that at the foot of the page you......

New Shares

Sir: Christopher Fildes, with whom I do not normally reckon to have to take issue, is very well aware both of the merits and of the mechanism of rights issues. His article in......

Letters The Arms Switch

Sir: Brian Eno does well in his comment on my War Business article (Letters, 9 May) to insist that political dreams of future technology have fuelled the industry. That is why......

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