18 MARCH 1995, page 29

Slightly Libelled?

Sir: Do you mind if I feel slightly libelled by your letting Fred Halliday and Oleg Gordievsky call me (Who are you calling an agent of influence?', 4 March) a 'Conserva- tive......

Mild Exception Taken

Sir: Whilst yielding to no one in my admira- tion for Sir John Hall, and being unstinting Me Demi Moore. You Michael Douglas.' in my gratitude to him for buying my for- mer......

Penny-pinchers

Sir: Unless Hall and Waterhouse (Letters, 25 February, 4 March) are both in error, I was the (unnamed) agent at the time, and deducted 10 per cent of £15.15.0, i.e., £1.11.6.......

Irritably American

Sir: Mr Geoffrey Wheatcroft, an amusing and Committed Writer, in his meditations on Ireland and the `unchicness' of Ulster (`Seeing red at Orange', 18 February), notes that I......

Sir: Radek Sikorski (letters, 11 March) Will Have To Try

harder if he wants to pin me down as a Soviet mouthpiece. In the letter to the Guardian from which he quotes, he significantly omits my criticism of the Sovi- et role in......

Sir: Messrs Hall And Waterhouse Protest Too Much. Their...

with their agent is no concern of mine. Furthermore, I have checked with my bank (not Barings) and I learn that the sum of 15 guineas in the mid-1960s is the equivalent of some......