Sir: Many people hearing the broadcasts of French commandoes boarding the Rainbow Warrior will doubtless share my feeling of alarm that the French government should compound the folly of its threat to resume testing in the Pacific by establishing an ...

Today, in 1995, my thoughts turn to Sarajevo, where the Serbs are wiping out the "world-dominating" Muslims. It does not strain the imagination to picture other ethnic/nationalist trouble spots around the globe. My apologies for labouring the point, ...

Sir: I was nothing less than astonished by your article "Ashdown under fire from his own MPs" (12 July), which claimed that members of the parliamentary party believed the party was being squeezed. After our quite extraordinary successes in local ele...

Sir: In response to David Rendel's article concerning the Newbury bypass (Another View, 7 July), I am keen to address his remarks about the insignificant nature of the destruction to the battlefield of the First Battle of Newbury (1843) from the new ...

What we were never sure of was whether the DJ had a good or bad effect on police. We often drove home from jobs late at night in our classless garb, and if we ever attracted the attention of the police, would it help or hinder the proceedings if we w...

Sir: After two weeks of sunshine I decided to buy some sandals, but, silly me, it's now the end of the season sales and there are only a few pairs left. Now when I go shopping I find that the shops have "back to school" promotions. However, my childr...

Sir: Today's picture from Bosnia of a French UN armoured vehicle could be considered an accurate illustration of UN policy; the vehicle's gun points towards Serbian positions while the soldier standing in the turret faces the other way. Yours faithfu...

Sir: As a regular visitor to the South Pacific, I have followed your reports on Greenpeace's campaign in French Polynesia with considerable interest. While I agree with Andrew Marr's point ("Green power in the world's saloon bar", 11 July) that boyco...

The real culprits are much higher up the ladder in the Metropolitan Police. Theirgrotesquely named Aliens Deportation Squad, based in the same building they work in, was using sticking plaster, belts and body belts for use on unsuspecting, mainly bla...

Anyone looking for a long-odds, long-term investment could do much worse than bet on the world championship match in 2008 being between England's Luke McShane and France's Etienne Bacrot. Luke, still only 11, has been beating international masters an...

Lone parents do not want to be dependent on the state or to see their children stuck in long-term poverty. The Government's own research shows 90 per cent want to return to work but are prevented from doing so by a lack of affordable childcare, suita...

The truth is that Sir Paul Condon has had the wisdom and the courage to bring into the open an issue that causes enormous public anxiety, damages race relations, and plays into the hands of the real racists. You do not solve a problem by pretending i...

When I lived in Bristol years ago, Asian friends of mine suffered regular harassment from a pair of white-skinned villains who used to come round collecting "for the hospital". At first conned, afterwards terrified, my friends usually paid up. I begg...

Yours faithfully, Barbara Abensur Chairperson Friends of Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens London, W1

There are the interests of other people who frequent the central London area and use what is the public highway. I represent the ward of Bloomsbury (which includes part of Covent Garden and also Fitzrovia (Charlotte Street). The unique character of t...

That man, Gojko Djoko, also spoke of a "final solution" involving partition between Serbia and Croatia. UN negotiators may jet about and babble, hoping, as the Commons was incredulously told yesterday, that the Serbs can be persuaded to hand back Sre...

So today I have hired cleaning expert Mavis Lapointe to deal with some of the knottier of the cleaning problems that land on my desk. Take it away, Mavis! I have recently been trying to make a fortune by scratching those cards that fall out of newspa...

Matt Snow Editor, Mojo Of course there should be no age limit on rock stars. Originally rock acts modelled themselves on middle-aged blues stars such as Chuck Berry and Howling Wolf, which shows how irrelevant age is. The fact that these rock stars a...

The West's possible courses of action are narrowing into three choices as a result of Srebrenica's collapse and the approach of the Bosnian autumn and winter. The first option, outlined by President Jacques Chirac of France, is to use force in an att...

This is despite a 7.2 per cent increase in drivers' productivity over the past year. We have seen 1,200 jobs disappear but we still run the same number of trains; passenger receipts have risen by 1.7 per cent and the cost of train crew operations has...