Sir: It is evident that the Football Association is unable to guarantee that only true football supporters will accompany the England international team abroad. I therefore feel that the Football Association of Ireland should ensure future matches be...

Sir: I am an Irishman who has lived, very happily, in England for a number of years. I watched the match at Lansdowne Road with an English friend who stated, unequivocally, that England should no longer host the European Championship. I believe he is...

Sir: Surely it is wrong to ridicule the Tory Right for insisting on outdated passport controls to keep foreigners out of these wondrous isles while Irish and Continental football associations are frantically trying to avoid having to come here for th...

A further international ramification of a single currency is surely that monetary co-operation between Europe, Japan and the US would become easier simply because there would be fewer players. In addition, Europe would carry more political weight in ...

The answer is entirely in character. One of the attractions of Kenneth Clarke is that what you see is what you get. He's a jazz fan - having progressed from Acker Bilk to Gerry Mulligan and Charlie Parker in his teens - because he loves it; he watche...

Sir: Your reporter's notion that placing a memorial to Oscar Wilde in Poets' Corner was to welcome him back into the literary establishment bemused me ("Wilde joins the establishment 100 years late", 15 February). A mark of contrition it may have bee...

Doubtless they wanted a strong and coherent message to emerge from their meeting. Sequencing of the human genome attracts so much funding that it would be surprising if a few of those in the behavioural sciences were not interested in some of that gr...

It is a disturbing prospect. Unionist politicians have scuppered previous initiatives. This time, Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionists have already declared their opposition to a "sell-out". So far, Mr Molyneaux has kept his counsel, but the mood is ch...

Sir: Here we go again. The inevitable crowd violence which has been such a hallmark of British (not exclusively English) soccer has once again risen to the surface. There have been some improvements in the general level of behaviour at football groun...

So what did happen on Wednesday? And what should we do about it? A very small bunch of men - possibly as few as 50, most of them known to the police - took advantage of the relative innocence of the Irish authorities. They travelled to Dublin, bound ...

Sir: It is an interesting move by the Archbishop of York, Dr John Habgood, to suggest tax benefits to prevent couples "living in sin". Perhaps he's like to suggest tax benefits for Christians next? That would be an effective way to win conversions. Y...

The April 1994 election may have achieved a peaceful transfer of political power in South Africa, but a more equitable distribution of resources has barely begun. The divisions are particularly sharp in the western Cape, where blacks were never inten...

Brits, more than most people, internalise their feelings, keeping that stiff upper lip in place so as not to betray the seething pain and frustration beneath their wafer-thin psyches. Talk Radio in America, and now here, is designed not as an ego-tri...

Sir: It's about time the colour yellow came back into the clothes we wear. I once had a yellow suit edged with navy blue in 1970, I bought it while I lived abroad in Colorado. I wore it threadbare. All you can buy here for years has been maroon and d...

OK! Ready? Right! Let's go! Hold on ... Something wrong ... I can't get the camera to ... I can't quite see ... Oh, I see what's wrong. How stupid ... Right! Ready? OK! Let's go ... ! No, as you were ... I don't think the film has ... There seems to ...

This absurd and extreme sentence breaks every canon of Islamic law, in which the accent is strongly on mercy. In a more enlightened Islamic court, the accused would have been given a warning against causing fitna (social unrest) and sent home. But in...

Sir: The innuendo in the caption of your front page-cartoon (15 February) suggests Brigitte Bardot has altered her natural appearance. While considerably older than the Independent, she has never found it necessary to alter her appearance, a proud bo...

Sir: Last November, Scallywag magazine published an article which accused me of blackmail, criminality and sexual deviation. Its contents were directly defamatory of me and, I believe, indirectly defamatory of Tony Blair. Now its author, Angus James ...