Sir: Your game attempt to simplify the notion of sin in your chart guide to morality in different religions is at odds with what Alan Storkey says in the text that "the picture is complex". There are also one or two details which are wrong. Divorce i...

Sir: Alan Storkey ("Where to find sin in the modern world", 8 June) writes persuasively about marriage as a "given", an institution ordained by God which must be respected if we are to flourish. His analysis, however, leaves out much that should be a...

Sir: The table of religions accompanying your article about sin indicates that cruelty to animals is not a sin in Islam. This is not correct. Cruelty to animals is a sin punished by God in the afterlife. Conversely, kindness to animals is rewarded by...

Sir: Not every northerner endorses Robert Cockroft's sour salvo ("Dear Harvey Nichols", 7 June) to Harvey Nichols. Leeds is about to gain a branch of mass-market home furnishers, Ikea, so Harvey Nicks will represent an opulent balance. Even those of ...

Sir; As well as prophesising the miseries of negative equity (letter, 6 June), George Orwell also predicted another "achievement" of the Major government. In Nineteen Eighty Four (published in 1949) he wrote: The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of e...

Health service managers, meeting at their annual conference in Harrogate, are under siege from all sides. The Welsh Secretary, John Redwood, has criticised the number of "men in grey suits" in the NHS and has placed a moratorium on appointments in Wa...

Sir: The Weasel (Magazine, 3 June) is being disingenuous in supposing that a statue to Oscar Wilde, the man - over and above the already existing Westminster Abbey panel to the writer - would not be intended to celebrate him as a homosexual martyr. A...

Sir: We write, as chairmen of probation committees responsible for probation services in the South West of England, to express concern about Government proposals which we fear will erode the professionalism of the Probation Service. We are the employ...

Sir: The debate about the death of the Modern Review grows ever more spiteful. I declare no interest whatsoever in the demise of the magazine or what it stood for. However, the defence of the popular arts needs little further ammunition. The case has...

Sir: I am writing in response to Gilbert Adair's review of Jeanette Winterson's Art Objects (3 June). The answer to Mr Adair's question "doesn't she know what 'nemesis' means?" is - yes, Jeanette Winterson is fully aware of the meaning of the word "n...

Sir: Tristan Garel-Jones ("I, too, would have acted as William Waldegrave did", 7 June) displays a very selective memory when he says: "It is absurd to suggest that Foreign Office officials would connive to mislead Parliament." He has forgotten the C...

Sir: I was intrigued by your News Analysis (1 June) about marketing disasters of our time. I have worked in the sales promotion industry for my entire career, so can vouch for the fact that most of them and many more that "got away" are certainly tru...

Sir: Peter Popham's article about out-of-town superstores and, in particular, Tesco at Dorchester (Magazine: "Doomsday for rural England", 27 May) needs a counterbalance. Many reasons lie behind the decline of certain town centres: the recession, too...

Sir: Coverage - including your own - of the Church of England's working party on family life has highlighted its views on the rise of cohabitation. This risks underplaying the wider significance of the report. What should be welcome to all those seek...

Sir: Polly Toynbee is entitled to her bit of fun with the Church of England ("No more living in sin, and that's official", 7 June), and it can answer for itself. But the break-up of the family cannot be dismissed as an unfortunate side-blow against t...

But discussion about families inevitably means thinking about marriage. Here the report is quite clear: "A central place in Christian understanding of the family has to be given also to the institution of marriage. It is seen as a relationship undert...

There is a temptation to assume that these are examples of luvvie hypocrisy and lefty hyperbole. Yet both detractors have half a point in that pounds 84m, to be disbursed over five years, is a tiny amount by the standards of the global film industry....

What were the offending items? A Father Christmas who puked fake vomit on to a member of the public, a fake colostomy bag split over another member of the public, and a novelty act who inadvertently gave us a flash of his penis, despite being warned ...