From Ms Diana Darke. Sir, David Gardner’s Global Insight sets out successive failures of will by western powers, hampered by the historical baggage of their previous interventions in the region
From Mr Robin Christie. Sir, The article by Robert Skidelsky and Marcus Miller highlights the danger of ‘hysteresis’ – the ‘rusting away’ of human capacity through underemployment
From Prof Jonathan Stern. Sir, An increase in the share of gas-fired power generation and gas import dependence has long been obvious to those paying any attention
From Andreas Norlén MP and others. Sir, The EU will, for the first time, have a long-term budget tighter than the previous one, assuming that the European Parliament does not obstruct
From Dr Bernard L. Weinstein. Sir, I agree with Bill Richardson’s admonition that America’s new-found abundance of shale gas and oil does not guarantee energy security
From Prof Ferdinand E. Banks. Sir, The article by Sylvia Pfeifer on the cost advantages of reducing the size of nuclear reactors is more than good – it is brilliant
From Mr Johnny Rizq. Sir, Rowley Leigh sees the absurd complexity of supply chains in the food business as an inevitable consequence of the ‘insatiable demand for cheap meat’
From Mr Harvey Clark Greisman. Sir, David Hayes reports that brown suits for men, while unpopular in British cities, are considered elegant and fashionable in Italian ones
From Mr Miles Wortman. Sir, If, as Gillian Tett believes, library books are ‘on borrowed time’, I suppose we should shutter all the ‘reverential museums’