13 MAY 1989, Page 26

No invention

Sir: In your most generous profile (6 May), you quoted me as claiming to have in- vented stories for Private Eye. Not SO. There may have been errors of fact, misquotations and even embellishments on a comic anecdote, but such things can appear even in profiles for The Spectator. By the way, I called the Sun the flagship of Rupert Murdoch's fleet, which is not the same as a 'fine paper'.

Richard West

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