Listening in on Angela Merkel

Sir, – If the meticulous efficiency, technical mastery and engineering genius of the Germans cannot protect Chancellor Angela Merkel’s phone calls, is it not time to re-evaluate our stereotypes? – Yours, etc,

Dr JOHN DOHERTY,

Operngasse,

Vienna,

Austria.

Sir, – I did not have textual relations with that woman. – Yours, etc,

GERARD LEE,

St Agnes Park,

Crumlin,

Dublin 12.