5 FEBRUARY 1977, Page 18

Sir: I hold no particular brief for the Daily Express

in either its previous or present form. But I wonder why you selected the editor of its chief rival to comment on it. As Mr English himself says, he is hardly an objective critic, and the impartial reader only receives two impressions from his article. First, Mr English, not surprisingly, gets in a good puff for his Daily Mail, and second, he provides a notable example of the traditional bitchiness of Fleet Street.

F. H. C. Tatham Two Trees, Fee Farm Road, Claygate, Surrey