©Pathe 1:10am

Italy can no longer quite capture itself

From Dr Guido Franzinetti. Sir, Nigel Andrews points out that ‘it is uncanny how Italy’s film-makers keep failing to nail their country’s strident political shortcomings’

1:09am

Consumers benefit from supermarket price-cutting

From Mr Christian Verschueren. Sir, Mella Frewen and John Gapper take the view that food quality has been sacrificed for price, and that supermarket competitiveness has been the root cause

1:09am

‘May contain horsemeat’

From Dr M.J. Pugh. Sir, The supermarkets have a very easy solution to the horsemeat scandal, and I don’t know why it hasn’t occurred to them

11:53pm

Time to unwind the NRA’s trickery

From Mr David E. Stowell. Sir, Thank you for publishing Richard Daley’s article ‘America must side with its young not its gunmakers’ (Comment, February 27)

11:51pm

Out by a month

From Mr Richard Tait. Sir, ‘Telepathic rats team up across continents’. Aren’t you a month early with this story?

11:26pm

Investors need fresh models of African growth

From Mr Michael Street. Sir, Your Monday book reviews always capture the spirit of the day (‘Consequences of a continent’s miscalculations’, February 25)

11:26pm

Pope Gregory X shows way out of deadlock

From Mr John O’Byrne. Sir, Your report ‘Sicilian solution touted as a way out of national political impasse’ suggests another possibility: the Vatican remedy

11:26pm

If only electric cars were that efficient

From Mr Adam Schaffer. Sir, Paul Kelly calls for mandated use of electric vehicles, on the basis that the petrol engine has an efficiency of 20%

11:26pm

Lesson to be drawn from Eastleigh

From Mr Malcolm Bone. Sir, Your editorial ‘Diplomatic fallout from EU bonus cap’ failed to recognise the point, which was coincidentally made for you by the voters in Eastleigh the day before

Kinabalu Mountain ©Alamy Mar 2, 2013

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

Mar 2, 2013

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’

Mar 2, 2013

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

Mar 2, 2013

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

Mar 2, 2013

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

Mar 2, 2013

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

Mar 2, 2013

‘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?’

Mar 2, 2013

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

Mar 2, 2013

Don’t be a platform to spread rumours

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

Mar 2, 2013

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’

Mar 2, 2013

Feast or famine?

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

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