1 DECEMBER 1990, page 33

Pet Subject

Sir: Would you allow me to apologise collectively and in individual to readers who quite rightly wrote in to me (Low life, 10 November) to tell me that I am an idiot? Of course......

Mad Hats

Sir: I am delighted that Nigella Lawson has stumbled, however inadvertently, upon an important truth about one of the major international fast food chains (Restaurant , 17......

Mrs Robinson's Message

Sir: Jeffrey Peel argues (Letters, 10 November) that Conservative candidates will stand a better chance in future if they contest parliamentary elections in North- ern Ireland,......

Gourmets At Grey Gables

Sir: John Diamond believes that Ambridge folk have only just caught a whiff of culinary innovation from the kitchens of The Bull and Grey Gables (Indigestible plots', 10......

If Symptoms Persist . . .

WHENEVER great political events agi- tate the world, I recall Maupassant's story A Coup d'Etat. A provincial doctor is consulted by a peasant woman about a sensation of ants......

Silly Question

Sir: Is there really any prospect of Aube- ron Waugh (Another voice, 17 November) being brought to his senses by a taste of real poverty? D. Shillam 93 The Grove, Ealing, London......