18 MAY 2002, page 39

Cool It, Kelvin

From Mr Nicholas Paget-Brown Sir: Kelvin MacKenzie ('Duncan Smith ate my party', 11 May) has lost his touch. Rather than firing crepitatious pot shots at fain Duncan Smith, he......

Food For Thought

From Mr IC. Riddell Sir: Reading Peter Hitchens's article ('Keep quiet or face arrest', 11 May) put me in mind of the experience of a supermarket manager who told me of the......

Five Alive

From Mr Dominic Low Sir: While Stephen Glover (Media studies, 11 May) must speak for himself, he certainly doesn't speak for me. I can barely remember when I last watched BBC......

Rumbly, Not Curmudgeonly

From Mr Nicholas Bagnall Sir: I was sorry to see Stephen Glover (Media studies, 4 May) calling Peter Wilby 'the curmudgeonly editor of the New Statesman'. Readers who know Mr......

What Might Have Been

From Mr Christopher Ruane Sir: Everybody's favourite fighter (not quitter), Peter Mandelson (Books, 11 May), provides an interesting overview of the transition in the office of......

Three's A Crowd

From Mr John Whitworth Sir: Grey Gowrie (Books, 4 May), in his amusing review of Larkin's girls' school stories, attributes the famous couplet 'I sometimes think that I would......