What is happening to our country?

This nursery rhyme has absolutely no significance to race, colour or creed whatsoever.

Next they’ll be telling us not to sing Humpty Dumpty as it is offensive to fat people.

It seems to me we are Christian people trying to fit in, in a non-Christian country. — Mrs Janice Brady, Nevay Terrace, Dundee.

The sign was erected a few weeks ago and I’m sure your photographer would take a picture of it. — Broadford Terrace Resident.

Abertay hoped to house an extra 500 students.

Despite planning officials recommending the move, councillors unanimously rejected the idea, leaving the university in a state of limbo.

Does the city council not understand the university injects millions of pounds annually to the local economy?

The “we know best” attitude from councillors who are supposed to be working to improve the city sickens me.

I will be saddened if Abertay University carry out their planned threat to quit the city, but I will not blame them for it.

The blame will lie with councillors. They should be ashamed of themselves. — Absolutely Disgusted.

I use public transport every day and, although the service is not as efficient as in Tayside, value for money is far superior.

Dublin buses use the same money machines as buses in Dundee, but with one slight difference.

If you pay too much, you get a refund receipt with your ticket for the value of money you have overpaid.

To collect it you just pop down to the bus station and it can be transferred into cash.

I wonder why this service is not available in Dundee, or, if it is, why it is not well-publicised. — Edward Ryce, formerly Balbeggie Street, Dundee.

The letters about the city arcade brought back memories.

I used to purchase scraps there too, just as M. Heenan did, and was elated when I found the pre-war scraps.

The paper was thicker than the usual scraps and was a beige colour.

We used to play the same game and swap scraps, but we only did this with our “doubles”.

I also enjoyed the book store there, too.

I have been collecting stamps for the last 55-plus years and remember buying the Stanley Gibbons pricing catalogue at the book store.

Inside were some old stamps. What a find. — Linda Menzies Findlay, Bentley Avenue, Culver City, California.

Tony Blair says he justifies going to war to bring democracy to Iraq, whether they want it or not. You can’t impose democracy.

However, I wonder why Mr Blair does not invoke the democratic process in the deliberations of his government.

The restoration of the link between average wage increases and annual pension benefits has been a policy passed by national Labour Party conferences, most major trade unions, the National Pensioners Convention, the Scottish Pension Forum, Age Concern and others.

Even Lady Thatcher, who effectively cut the link in the first place wants to see it restored.

There is no real democrat that can ignore all that public opinion. — W. McCormack, Symers Street, Dundee.

Tony Blair was “moved to tears” by the tragedy but was still unable to get off that sun-lounger and help the British people crying out for information about their missing relatives.

People are asking through the media, where is God and why does He allow these things to happen?

My opinion is that God is trying to tell us something like man’s inhumanity to man should stop and all suffering and death should be left to Him.

There is so much suffering and untimely death all round us that it beggars belief that our leaders should be inflicting more on us on a grand scale.

We should have a memorial service to all Iraqis slaughtered.

It is quite clear President Bush is not interested in freedom, democracy or human rights, only world domination and yes-men everywhere. — Dermot O’Sullivan, Law Street, Dundee.