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The Nanny's State

Sir: I am married to a career nanny. I was once a steady boyfriend but never a nanny- snatcher as mentioned by Leanda de Lisle (Country life, 31 August). Mrs de Lisle paints a......

The Villain Of The Piece

Sir: Bruce Anderson is entitled to his opin- ions about the problems confronting the monarchy today (Politics, 24 August). But to blame these on Commander Richard Aylard is both......

Means To An End

Sir: Does Ronald Mutebi really think that the measures used to combat insurgency in Malaya . .. in the 1950s still rank among the worst human rights horrors in modern history'......

Significant Figures

Sir: In defending herself against Stephen Glover's criticism of her report in the Observer on the recently reported relation- ship between the consumption of hamburg- ers and......

Another Cymbeline Sir: Jonathan Keates (books In General,...

and other readers may be interest - ed to know that the copy of Cymbeline buried with Tennyson was not actually the one he was holding on his deathbed. That was volume 9 of the......

Taking A Name In Vain

Sir: I fear that Mr Burt will obtain little comfort from writing to Mr Harold Brooks- Baker for answers to his questions (Letters, 31 August). I too, received an unsolicited......

Elizabethan Era

Sir: In his review of Antonia Fraser's book on the Gunpowder Plot (Books, 31 August), Peter Vansittart refers to interpreters of the Jacobean era for whom Macbeth is more......