Page 15 - Good Easter News Today

James Bowman on recent populist successes around the world.

SIR – Yet another useless Cop exercise is under way (Leading Article, December 1), this one even more climate-busting than the others.

Plus: the hypocrisy of the British Medical Association; housebuilding in rural areas; too many blunders at the BBC; and keeping Naval time

Plus: Trooping the Colour; Sweet Caroline; Boris's leadership skills; a ban on the sale of marine ivory; and a trip to the opera

The arrival of new Suffolk Punch foal Iris at Easton Farm Park has been welcomed to help an endangered species.

Plus: striking junior doctors; royal reparations; staggered holidays; departed dentures; and repairing potholed roads

SIR – Unaccustomed as I am to agreeing with anything Boris Johnson proposes, he is correct about committing to sending Typhoon fighter aircraft to Ukraine (report, February 21).

SIR – Liz Truss, who claims to have been “brought down by the Left-wing economic establishment”, was the first prime minister in decades to hold genuinely Conservative views.

SIR – I appreciate that not everyone can afford to pay for private dentistry but, contrary to many myths, it isn’t that expensive, and is clearly preferable to DIY dentistry (“Elderly fear having to resort to ‘DIY dentistry’”, report, December 26).

SIR – I am self-employed.