17 MAY 1997, page 30

Pay Up!

Sir: I admire Bruce Anderson's forthright admission (Politics, 10 May) 'I was wrong'. I would admire it even more if he would send me the £100 he bet me at the Spectator lunch......

Sir: I, Like David Damant (letters, 3 May), Have Doubts

if Alice von Schlieffen exists. I sincerely hope 'she' is a hoax. If Miss von Schlieffen is in fact real, what hope is there for a United Europe? The Schlieffen Plan resulted in......

Sir:

Why are they beefin' 'Bout Alice von Schlieffen When they ought to be railin' 'Gainst Maginot failin'. Leonard Green 47 Brampton Grove, London NW4......

Sir: In The Course Of Her Post-election Anal- Ysis Anne

McElvoy touches upon the bien pensant outrage, or feigned outrage, at the Tory election advertisement which showed Tony Blair perched upon Helmut Kohl's knee. `Anti-German!'......

Cheeky Keegan

Sir: John Keegan in his tendentious letter (10 May) cheekily implies that I have had no access to the Schlieffen papers. He supports his case by exhuming the much quoted remark......

Missing Components

Sir: David Fingleton's excellent review of the British breakfast overlooks two impor- tant components. There was no mention of kippers, nor any comment on either the variety or......

Shifting Shame

Sir: It was sweetly misleading of Anne McElvoy to credit me, having been spoon- fed by Central Office staff, as a reporter who had gone off their absurd 'just forget the......