18 OCTOBER 1997, page 49

Champagne Envy

Sir: Is Judge Finney's choler (Letters, 11 October) oer Labour party supporters drinking champagne another example of the unattractive politics of envy? There is not much......

A Protestant Pogrom

Sir: Simon Sebag Montefiore has left out some significant details in his story of Father Creagh and the appalling pogrom in Limerick in 1904 (`Arthur Griffith, anti- Semite', 11......

Sir: I Rather Hope The Average Spectator Reader Is Beyond

falling for the blandish- ments of a public relations consultant. I thus wonder why Mr Cole bothers to write and, for that matter, why you bother to publish. E.D.......

A Final Tribute

Sir: 'She who would drown in the eyes' of Jeffrey Bernard, despite having been pillo- ried, humiliated and made a laughing-stock in his 'Low life' column over and over, would......

Schlieffen — The End

Sir: Sarah Gainham (Letters, 11 October), 'cloth protest too much', and in conse- quence completely misses the point. At the risk of sounding both didactic and boring, perhaps I......

Mary Robinson's Bills

Sir: My review of Lorna Siggins's biography of Mary Robinson (Books, 11 October) contained a fairly serious blunder which I Should like to retract. It is not true that Mrs......

Pr Quote

Sir: I tremble to trespass further on your space in the light of Mr D.J. Pimblett's reproof (Letters, 11 October), but I must tell him that I have not once initiated any......

Black-letter Law

Sit: Mr Justice Popplewell's haughty letter (Letters, 4 October) dismissing Alan Wat- kins's article does no more than deftly illus- trate what aught be called the Judge's Fal-......