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Letters: ID cards

Published: 16 February 2006

ID cards must make the fraudsters rub their hands with glee

Letters: The study of insects

Published: 15 February 2006

Study of insects is vital for combating environmental threat

Letters: Moral implications of buildings

Published: 14 February 2006

Buildings have moral implications, as architects should know

Letters: Drug policies

Published: 13 February 2006

Our drug policies guarantee a revolving-door prison population

Letters: Offenders and prison

Published: 11 February 2006

Offenders should pay something back, not languish in a prison cell

Letters: Heroin must be legalised

Published: 10 February 2006

Heroin must be legalised: but who is brave enough to do it?

Letters: 40 years of feminism

Published: 09 February 2006

After 40 years of feminism, the pressure now is to go out to work

Letters: What next for New Guinea?

Published: 08 February 2006

What next for New Guinea's newly discovered paradise?

Letters: Israelis must stop provoking violence

Published: 07 February 2006

Sir: I agree that Israelis have the right to live in peace and security, but I wish to refute the claim that violence in the occupied territories is a one-sided affair (letters, 3 February). I lived and worked in Balata refugee camp in the West Bank, Palestine, last year and can assure you, as an eyewitness, that Israeli soldiers do target civilians.

Letters: Cartoon row

Published: 06 February 2006

Cartoons row shows both Islam and the West at their worst

Letters: Cartoon controversy

Published: 04 February 2006

What if 'Life of Brian' had been made by the Saudis?

Letters: Teenagers are eager readers

Published: 03 February 2006

Teenagers are eager readers - of the right books

Letters: Save the Planetarium

Published: 02 February 2006

Sir: Around thirty years ago, a group of us took a cohort of 150 first-year social science students, at what was then Middlesex Polytechnic, to the London Planetarium ("Planetarium show is eclipsed by star culture", 31 Jabuary). We were trying to get them to understand some of the methodological problems of the physical sciences by studying the Copernican Revolution in astronomy. Few of them had ever looked seriously at the night sky, and indeed it had hardly been visible in London since the Three Day Week.

Letters: Cameron's new Toryism

Published: 01 February 2006

Cameron's new Toryism and the legacy of Thatcher

Letters: Red tape for green car

Published: 31 January 2006

Sir: Congratulations to Oliver Duff for a timely article on the rising use of vegetable oil as a greener fuel and the obstacles that the supposedly-green Tony Blair and Gordon Brown put in its way ("Food (and fuel) for thought", 23 January). We're just planning to convert our car, and want to add a couple more hoops that have to be jumped through if you want to be less of a drain on our battered planet.