1 MAY 1993, Page 28

Alibi

Sir: I note Terence Kealey's attack on the Oxford Magazine in your issue of 10 April (Books). He seems to be suggesting that the magazine played a part (Inflamed Oxford's campaign against Mrs Thatcher, comparing her treatment of the universities with Adolf Hitler's') in the denying of an honorary degree to Mrs Thatcher.

It may make some difference to your readers, though probably not to Mr Kealey, that the Oxford Magazine did not at the time exist.

T.J. Reed

Editor, Oxford Magazine, The Queen's College, Oxford