Failings Of Bureaucracy

Sir: The Leslie Chapman affair raised some disturbing issues, although anyone familiar With government or official bodies will feel indignation rather than surprise. I hope I am......

B Low-up

Sir. Your readers must have been fascinated by Auberon Waugh's tales (20 May) of the vast sums extorted on Fleet Street by not very skilled, not very hard or r eBularly working,......

A Place Apart

Sir: John Biggs-Davison, purporting to review Dervla Murphy on Northern Ireland (20 May), considers that no civil rights are now lacking there. True, in theory many wrongs have......

Plea For Pr

Sir: Ferdinand Mount (13 May) refers to the 'obstinate, deep-rooted stability of the British political system' which has allowed the present Government to ride roughshod over......

Missing Clue

Sir: Readers of my review (20 May) of Harriet Waugh's novel Mother's Footsteps must have been puzzled by the last sentence of my penultimate paragraph. It should have concluded:......

Motherhood

Sir: Auberon Waugh's rather pessimistic article on the baby famine (6 May) raised some interesting points about our whole approach to childbirth. Would it not help if mothers......