Ann Warde News Today

SIR – Royal Mail’s £5 charge for customers who receive forged stamps (Leading Article, April 12) is misguided and unjust. These people have done nothing wrong, and are being penalised for a crime that others have committed.

SIR – The steady worldwide growth of prosperity in the 19th century was attributable in good measure to a largely stable world order, underpinned by the economic and naval dominance of a single power – Great Britain. This stability was sufficient to keep in check lesser local conflicts such as German and Italian unification. The same was true of the period after 1945, except that the dominant power had become the United States. The intervening period of chaos and destruction, 1914-...