Kinabalu Mountain ©Alamy 12:43am

A mist, a stream and Mt Kinabalu

From Ms Peggy Tan. Sir, Daniela Morena notes that anyone wishing to see the Margaret Thatcher orchid within Singapore’s Botanic Gardens must pay a $5 entrance fee to enter the orchid garden

12:36am

Stupid drivers are more likely to kill

From Dr Michael Bennett. Sir, Julian Malins writes that the driving test is ‘now too difficult for our state-‘educated’ young men and women’

12:36am

Red jacket is easy to spot in snow

From Mr Michael Howard. Sir, It is great that Lucy Kellaway has made a stand for the delights of not falling over in the Alps

12:34am

Our involvement in Vietnam was not seriously considered

From Mr Andy Thompson. Sir, I recall the time of the Vietnam protest at the London US embassy in March 1968, which I believe was rather more violent and disorderly than suggested by Roderick Thomson

12:34am

Still struggling to predict a worm’s behaviour

From Prof Steven Rose. Sir, Clive Cookson’s enthusiastic account of the promise of the $3bn Brain Activity Mapping project, needs a little grounding

12:33am

Public art placed by consensus

From Mr John-Paul Stonard. Sir, Street art might well be ‘by its very nature public’, but this does not make it a work of public art

12:33am

‘Snuck’ has no place in the FT

From Mr Albert Isola. Sir, Some readers would respond to the recent controversy surrounding the removal of graffiti from a wall in the London borough of Haringey with an indifferent: ‘Why not?’

12:33am

So much for my allegiance as religion

From Mr Richard Kidd. Sir, Christopher Caldwell opines that voters’ allegiance to a particular political party in the US is a kind of religion

12:32am

Don’t be a platform to spread rumours

From Mr Wolfgang Hummel. Sir, Further to ‘Death in Singapore’, let me express my disappointment

12:32am

Mollet was never quite so powerful

From Prof Wilfred Beckerman. Sir, At the end of his admirable article, Howard Davies refers to Guy Mollet as having been ‘the former French trade union leader’

12:32am

Feast or famine?

From Mr Will Holt. Sir, A vegetarian quiche and a cappuccino does not constitute lunch

12:32am

Why Henry Moore would have approved of Old Flo’s sale

From Mr James Goodwin. Sir, I was interested to read your articles about the challenges of public art and local government finance

Feb 28, 2013

Never a wasted moment. Honestly

From Ms Clarissa Brooke-Turner. Sir, I really enjoyed reading about the trouble Lucy Kellaway has with cyber-loafing (February 25)

Feb 28, 2013

New rules of war will be little help in cyber arena

From Mr Lindsay Peter Mackenzie. Sir, Zbigniew Brzezinski is right to highlight inherent difficulties in controlling cyber activity and employing a framework of law to govern it

Feb 28, 2013

Mandate required for transition to electric vehicles

From Mr Paul Philemon Kelly. Sir, It is sad, but true, that a number of technologies with great potential for societal good have been adopted only when their use has been legislatively mandated

Feb 28, 2013

Departure from agreed standards hard to justify

From Ms Jil Matheson. Sir, Chris Giles seems to be arguing that the independence of the Office for National Statistics should be demonstrated by departing from recognised EU accounting principles

Feb 28, 2013

Virtue has to be its own reward again

From Prof Roger Steare. Sir, Mark Carney’s speech in London, Ontario, was a breath of fresh air

Feb 28, 2013

Minimum wage is classic stealth tax

From Mr W.H. Bailey. Sir, It is time to despair when an FT editorial lauds an increase in the minimum wage (‘US minimum wage rise makes sense’, February 20)

Feb 28, 2013

Bring off-balance-sheet products in from the cold

From Mr James Lee. Sir, Simon Rabinovitch’s article is a timely wake-up call for all parties involved not to be complacent about financial products that are off balance sheet

Feb 28, 2013

Harmonisation lifts systemic risk

From Mr Alex J. Pollock. Sir, Rod Price’s letter is subtle and profound. Bravo for its discussion of the recursive and self-falsifying properties of the use of financial models

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