Trusty Truslove
Sir: 'Foiling Foyles' (17 July) names only six London bookshops 'run by people who actually care for books'. For over 20 years I have received perfect service (and accurate......
Foiling Foyles
Sir: I don't know what the disputes at Dillons Bookshop were about (Richard West, 17 July), but I do know that they were not in favour of sociology against history books. (`Out......
Mosquito Lore
Sir: The anopheles mosquito is, indeed, responsible for a good deal of woe as the vector of malaria. It is not, however, as your reviewer Richard West mistakenly asserts (10......
Condemning Child Labour
Sir: In 1980, the Anti-Slavery Society published its own report, Child Labour in Thailand, on the working conditions of school-age children in that country. Both your......
Letters
Toxteth preconceived Sir: David Taylor (`Summer in Toxteth', 17 July) elected to highlight summer life in Toxteth. He described closing down sales, the Merseyside skyline......
Unworthy
Sir: I must protest at Taki's rude dismissal of 'modern art' (17 July). Young Taki, as he admits, took an interest in modern art in the hope that it would make him a quick buck.......
Breaking Cover
Sir: A rare sight indeed: one of the gilded bureaucrats of our Foreign and Com- monwealth Office — the most overpaid and overstaffed in the West — actually 'breaks cover' and......
Shaming
Sir: Being away — Gibraltar! — I missed seeing the issue of 19 June: in Patrick Marn- ham's article from Costa Rica he refers to their formal paseo but then goes on to add,......
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