From Laurence Kelvin Sir: According to Irwin Stelzer, it would be in the long-term interest of the Palestinians if aid were reduced and eventually cut off altogether ('The Palestinians' real problem is the aid we send', 25 March). Perhaps aid ought to continue but with more controls. No money should be directed to a Hamas government that seeks to place ...

From Basil Dewing Sir: Irwin Stelzer is wrong to write that 'Brown wouldn't be caught dead in a dinner jacket, much less white tie' ('Cameron is the Tory Muhammad Ali', 11 March). The Telegraph has published photographs of Gordon Brown wearing white tie in Scotland and America. Is his uncouth behaviour at the Lord Mayor's banquet in London ...

Kitty Ussher, the economic secretary at the Treasury, insisted today that Labour was "a pro-business government" and said at this stage "the worst thing we could do is change the remit of the Bank of England covering inflation". Flanked by columnist and economist Irwin Stelzer, and private equity boss Simon Walker, chief executive of the British Venture Capitalist Association, she ...