15 SEPTEMBER 1990, page 30

Sir: Alexander Chancellor's Reaction To My Comments On...

was uncharac- 'Red sky at night, sheep are alight.' teristically paranoid. The point, one would have thought, was simple enough but let me offer him an analogy he should under-......

Fons Et Origo

Sir: Mr Andrew Alexander's opinion that someone of foreign origin is unlikely to have the same feeling as we do for our history and institutions, reported and con- demned by Mr......

The Old Enemy

Sir: During the past 30 years or so our relationship with France has deteriorated to such an extent that at any other time in our history we would have been at war. Currently in......

Arabyman

Sir: Hildry Mantel paints a picture ol `Gulfman' which is obviously based on her 'four years' expatriate life in Jeddah'. Unfortunately, it has little to do with the Gulf, which......

Letters

Pity the peers Sir: Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd points to some of the difficulties experi- enced by our aristocracy ('Ladies in their own tights. . .', 18 August). The financial......

Third Side Of The Ecu

Sir: Articles in The Spectator on the case for or against monetary union (Sir Keith Joseph, 28 July, Samuel Brittan, 21 July, etc) give the impression that the debate falls into......