A Playboy Defined

Sir: Michael Cole writes, (Letters, 13 September), `Dodi was no more of a play- boy than Mr Glover.' According to my Collins dictionary, a playboy is 'a man, esp. one of private......

Sir: Why Apologise For Printing An Adver- Tisement For...

safety? We all know that you can be killed even in a Mercedes if you crash it fast enough. Am I the only reader who by now is irritated by this sort of overreaction to the......

Royal Virtues

Sir: The royal family is not mediagenic. The Queen watched the passage of Princess Diana's coffin last Saturday with a face ric- tal with confusion and constraint. The Prince of......

Letters Why Apologise?

Sir: Notwithstanding the famous crash of that Mercedes in a Paris underpass, I bought a Mercedes for my wife on the Fri- day of the following week. That evening I noticed with......

Partial Presenters

Sir: The best television news is on Channel 4 at seven o'clock: each item followed by comment and discussion. It was therefore fascinating, in the week following the Princess's......

Excessive Punishment

Sir: 'Akin to grave-robbers,' thunders the prosecutor. 'Failing in my duty . . . public feeling . . . custodial sentence . . . ,' intones the stipendiary magistrate as he bangs......

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