Dungeons & Dragons and dangerous games | Brief letters
Your article (In the dragon's den, G2, 14 July) brought out the geek in me: aged 17, in 1974, at a meeting of the South East London Wargames Group (venue: Grove Park Youth Centre), my friends and I acquired a boxed set of Dungeons & Dragons from an American guest. I suspect we were the first people in the UK to play, so by the 80s this was old hat to us. But I recall the huge excitement and pleasure of our first campaign, which lasted nine months and almost certainly clipped a grade off each of my A-Levels!
Stephen Johnson
Burpham, Surrey
" In the 40 years I spent working at the Foreign Office, I was often reminded of the old adage that a diplomat is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country. It appears our new foreign secretary already has 50% of the attributes he will need in his new job and has been recognised for this by the French foreign minister (Liar, celebrity, joke: how other countries see Britain's new foreign secretary, 16 July).
Harry Wiles
Esher, Surrey