Bad form
Sir: As one who signed the candidates' book for Andrei Navrozov, might I apologise to Brooks's members for having done so? His views on the smoking ban are immaterial, just as his written style can possibly be excused because English is not his first language — or, it seems, any of them — but to describe the hall porters as 'surly' is truly disgraceful, when everyone knows they are the greatest gentlemen in the Club.
As for describing our library as 'bindings by the yard' — sitting on the Library Committee, as I have for some years, I am proud of the fact that every single book there has been chosen carefully for its appeal to our members, decisions which are reviewed regularly. (Members will hardly lament that Mr Navrozov's own works didn't make the cut.) Andrew Roberts London SW1
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