17 FEBRUARY 1990, page 24

Caveat Lector

Sir: Paul Johnson (The media, 20 January) argues that philistine publishers, and their high priests, the mustard-cutting literary editors, are now more concerned with hard-sell......

British Port

Sir: In your Taylor's Port competition (27 January) the claim is made that Taylor's is the only independently owned British firm of port shippers left. This is not true. My......

Editors In The Manger

Sir: I am exceedingly bored by Andrew Neil, Peregrine Worsthorne, Paul Johnson et al who are using the pages of various publications to whinge and air their grie- vances against......

Taki's Disease

Sir: Is it possible that Taki (High life, 27 January) is unaware that he is an anti- semite? He vilifies those who complain about public statements of anti-semitism and goes on......

Letters Romanoff Heir

Sir; Mr Frost of the Monarchist League in his letter (3 February) ignores two impor- tant facts. First, unless otherwise ordered by a crowned and anointed Czar, only the......

Satisfied Customer

Sir: My Mummy gets The Spectator, and I read the cartoons. Some of them I don't understand, but some I think are quite funny. I have been reading the cartoons ever since 1989,......