15 APRIL 2000, page 26

From A.n. Binder Sir: Annabel Barber (`beyond Their Wen', 1

April) mentions Napoleon and the metric system. Actually, Napoleon thought little of decimalisation. In his St Helena memoirs he wrote: Le nouveau systeme de poids et mesures......

From Mrs P.n. Bellingan Sir: Here In Zimbabwe The Right

to roam has gone mad. The worst thing about all this farm invasion (over 600 farms now) is that it is illegal. The judiciary declared against it, yet the police dare not enforce......

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Paying For England's Follies

From Dr Winifred M Ewing, MSP Sir: William Hague (`Give England the vote', 1 April) is right. Devolution has been bad news for the English and much worse is on the way.......

Letters The Pseudo-countrymen

From Annabel Barber Sir: No, I don't think the posthumous voice of Wiffiam Cobbett is being jammed (Letters, 8 April). I think Ross Clark's attractive deter- mination not to be......

Big-hearted Annan

From Lord Thomas of Swynnerton Sir: I have only just seen Paul Johnson's article about Noel Annan (And another thing, 25 March). In the good old days of England, to whose......

From Mr Randhir Singh Bains Sir: I Am Shocked At

William Hague's state- ment that his party wants devolution to suc- ceed. This is tantamount to accepting the principle of federalism and, consequently, the break-up of the......