A vote for New Labour can, just about, be interpreted as a conditional one for the euro. But, on the euro, despite the powerful rhetoric, he is still sitting on Mr Major's fence, still waiting to see whether it works, still worried about being taunted as "the most dangerous man in Britain" in the Europhobic press. In 1994, there was an even bigger protest against the even less popular administration of John Major, sleaze and all This time will be different There is no sign of a protest vote against New Labour. No sooner has the electorate got over the strain of the Scottish, Welsh and local votes than they are being asked to attend the polling stations once again, for elections to the European Parliament, on 10 June.

The majority of the cathedral's services are sung by the girls, either independently or with the Vicars Choral of the Choir.The girls, aged between seven and 17, are all chosen from local primary and secondary schools. The league tables of exam results theoretically underpin informed parental choice. (Apparently, the sale of "primers" from one publishing house increased more than five times between 1994 and 1998). One family reconverted to Catholicism to try to get their daughter into a Catholic school.

Letter: Parental `choice' Sir: I too faced the dilemma, like Jeremy Corbyn MP and his wife, of finding a school for my son in north Islington. Kosovo is the culmination of a decade of failed and misguided diplomacy on the part of the whole international community towards the fascist thuggery of the Milosevic regime.Probably the worst culprit has been the UN (according to Fisk "the only institution the poor and the sick and the raped and the dispossessed can rely on"), whose feeble surrender to Bosnian Serb "ethnic cleansing" (ie mass murder) was surely the greatest betrayal our continent has known since the era of Hitler and Stalin.CHARLES KENNAUGHGreasby, Merseyside. Would our "compassionate socialist liberal leaders" really be prepared to countenance this?Even if one opposes Nato's current military action, it is absurd to dump all the blame for Kosovo on it. It is, above all, about maintaining the patient's trust and confidence in the doctor so that they can work as partners. Letter: Foolish drugs war Sir: Having read your series on heroin in the UK last week, I wonder why we stopped the practice of prescribing heroin to registered addicts - a practice now being successfully trialled in Switzerland and the Netherlands. The Netherlands have a minor problem with heroin compared with most Western European countries. When your wife leans over in your car and urges you not to overtake, you go along with what she says immediately, because she has spent years getting into a position of trust and bonding with you. But it takes a long time to get to call a stranger `darling', as it were.