7 AUGUST 1993, Page 23

Diary of a nobody

Sir: Every time that Max Hastings is given the hospitality of your diary slot (Diary, 31 July) he uses the space to tell us that he is `middle-class'. Why? Although I have never met them myself, I am informed that a sub- stantial proportion of the population of England is `middle-class', so there is noth- ing very interesting, or newsworthy, or novel, in the information that the editor of a sister-publication comes from this numer- ous but not very interesting sector of the population.

Would it not be more exciting if the diary were to be restricted to either chunky proles or intelligent patricians?

John M. Robinson

8 Doughty Mews, London WC1