13 DECEMBER 1997, page 32

Dreyfus Of Tatton?

Sir: Is Neil Hamilton the Dreyfus of Tat- ton? I suspect not. Like many others, I am puzzled by the week-after-week misrepre- sentations of your little group who have been......

Sir: What A Brave And Tragic Tale Gerald Kaufman Has

to tell. Scarred for life by the elitism of the Royal Opera House and the social insecurities it inflicted on him, he is driven to seek retribution through the chairmanship of a......

Sir: I Support Mr Bazalgette In Deploring The Frequency With

which David Tang referred in the Diary of 29 November to a recently opened New York boutique, but you have now descended to further depths. While I am concerned at Mrs Blair's......

Letters Gerald In The Garden

Sir: In the last Parliament a handful of us on the National Heritage Select Committee were able to restrain the wilder flights of fantasy of our chairman, Gerald Kaufman — for......

Sir: Melanie Mcdonagh Does Not Answer The Crucial...

does your body feel like after reconstruction? What is the point of having breasts that look great but feel like overstuffed cushions? Will some- body, truthfully, tell me the......

Pompous

Sir: What a Scrooge that pompous Bazal- gette is (Letters, 6 December)! I bet that his second-hand motor is south of a Volvo. His jealousy should be tortured further by the fact......

Sir: Poor Old Gerald Kaufman. Presumably Much Of His...

in the Royal Opera House was due to the well-used seats hurting his back — a condition caused surely by the weight of the chips on his shoulders pressing down on his coccyx.......

Under The Skin

Sir: Melanie McDonagh's piece Nutting it fine', 6 December) on Western society's lat- est Faustian pact is brilliant. When cosmet- ic surgery moves onto the mainstream want......