6 APRIL 1996, Page 25

The bile of Miles

Sir: I am astonished that The Spectator should use Rosalind Miles as a reviewer (Books, 30 March). Like most feminist pro- pagandists, Rosalind Miles doesn't like open debate (else why refuse Neil Lyndon permission to quote her own work?), is incapable of analysing an argument and quotes to skew the sense (oh, maybe that's why: she dishes it out but can't take it). Her review tells me that a feminist bigot who despises anyone who won't bow down to her gods despises Paul Johnson's latest book. How surprising! How useless!

Nicholas Shackel

85 Tyndale Street, Leicester