7 OCTOBER 2000, Page 36

From Mr Clive Coates Sir: While in no way wishing

to excuse Tony Blair et al. for their porkies, perhaps I could suggest to Peter Oborne that peo- ple in glasshouses should not throw stones. What about the bias, gloss and general anti-Left mendacities exercised by most of today's press? Ugly Leninism here too, methinks.

Clive Coates

Woodstock Road, London W4