LEE MARVIN & JEAN SEBERG Film 'PAINT YOUR WAGON' (1969) ©Allstar 11:01pm

We’re shy when it comes to debauchery

From Mr R. Vijayaraghavan. Sir, Matthew Garrahan’s Los Angeles Notebook and his conclusion remind me of the 1969 film ‘Paint Your Wagon’

10:59pm

Alternatives to bonus cap are absent

From Philippe Lamberts MEP. Sir, As one of the legislators involved in the issue, I feel compelled to react to your emotional editorial ‘Bonus cap is a bad omen for Britain’

10:57pm

Curb has unintended consequences for flexible labour costs

From Mr Neil Chisman. Sir, There seems to be confusion about bankers’ bonuses, not least among European regulators (‘Britain outgunned on EU bank pay curbs’, February 18)

10:55pm

Bail-out should depend on Cyprus accepting plan

From Mr Thomas Niles. Sir, Tony Barber is right that Cyprus’s fiscal crisis provides an opportunity to resolve the problem that has divided the island since 1974

10:53pm

It sounds more like blackmail

From Mr George Hatjoullis. Sir, Tony Barber suggests that the eurozone use the opportunity of the debt crisis to ‘encourage’ the Greek Cypriots to revisit and accept the Annan plan

10:50pm

Look where less regulation has got us

From Ms Brigitte Voland-Steer. Sir, Dominic Raab (‘To stimulate the economy, cut spending and loosen red tape’, February 18) needs a new tune

10:49pm

... and where even less of it could get us

From Mr Will Kirby. Sir, Would Dominic Raab’s call for cutting regulation extend to relaxing residential planning restrictions?

10:47pm

Our problem is insufficient savings

From Lord Desai. Sir, Robert Skidelsky and Marcus Miller (‘Supply matters, Mr Osborne – but so does demand’, February 19) return to the issue of the appropriateness of the current fiscal stance

10:44pm

Boldness in face of Iran-US mistrust

From Mr Fariborz S. Fatemi.Sir, In your editorial ‘Iran’s intransigence’ (February 15), you claimed rightly that the ‘message needs to be clear if Iran is to be encouraged to negotiate’

10:41pm

Buffet overpaid? I don’t think so

From Prof Glen Arnold. Sir, I have not yet read a proper analysis of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger’s thinking in going for the Heinz deal

Feb 19, 2013

Lovable Zsa Zsa’s few requirements

From Prof Ira Sohn. Sir, Inga Verbeeck claims her female clients ‘want a guy who is strong and ‘puts food on the table’. Not much has changed in the last 60 years on that front

Feb 19, 2013

Models make for higher risk not lower

From Mr Rod Price. Sir, James Weatherall makes the reasonable point that models are not the problem but model use

Feb 19, 2013

Need for realism in corporate tax reform

From Mr Chas Roy-Chowdhury. Sir, George Osborne and his French and German counterparts’ initiative to move towards a reformed global corporate tax regime makes sense

Feb 19, 2013

Referendums are too artificial for complex decisions

From Mr Nick Hopkinson. Sir, Your timely poll on voting intentions in a possible UK referendum on EU membership shows half would vote to leave the EU and 33% would vote to stay in

Feb 19, 2013

Secret MEP ballot on EU budget could cause rift

From Richard Ashworth MEP. Sir, Martin Schulz has used your columns to attack the deal reached by EU leaders on the next long-term EU budget

Feb 19, 2013

Energy-saving incentives for Iran

From Mr Chris Cook. Sir, I have visited Iran several times in the last couple of years and have gained some insights into the view of Iranian decision makers

Feb 19, 2013

Lord Drogheda’s unanswerable memo

From Mr Peter Biddlecombe. Sir, Bridget Bloom was lucky. At least Lord Drogheda asked her a question she could answer

Feb 19, 2013

Mathematical impossibility

From Mr Steven E. Cerier. Sir, Moisés Naim writes that the bolivar has been devalued by 992% since Hugo Chávez came to power

Feb 19, 2013

May should withdraw her comments

From Mr Paul Serfaty. Sir, It is a tenet of conservatism that the legal agency of the state be respected

Feb 19, 2013

À chacun son goût

From Mr Rick Weinstein. Sir, Was I the only reader who was puzzled by the suggestion in the cartoon on page 6 of Monday’s FTfm?

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