19 JULY 1997, Page 25

Who's talking?

Sir: I was intrigued by Mr Ronald Spark's criticism (Letters, 12 July) of the alleged deterioration in the political, moral and journalistic standards of the Guardian under the editorship of Alan Rusbridger and Peter Preston. I wonder whether this could possibly be the same Ronald Spark who was for many years the chief leader writer of that pillar of morality and protec- tor of journalistic probity, Rupert Mur- doch's Sun?

Ian Aitken

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