4 DECEMBER 1999, Page 38

From Mr Frederick Forsyth Sir: Your editorialist of 20 November

referred to Baroness Jay's triumphal gloat- ing over the destruction of the House of Lords as 'pouting and posturing, putting her pretty little feet on the mounded bellies of her victims'.

Pray, sir, have you ever observed the feet of which you speak? Without wishing to be ungallant, I have seen smaller landing craft. Frederick Forsyth

Hertford