22 MAY 1993, page 24

Small And Ravishing

Sir: Giles Auty is a hypocrite. It is he who is trying to shock us by displaying his unwill- ingness to understand the art you employ him to report. As her dealer, I can vouch......

Disgusted And Proud

Sir: I am writing to express my absolute dis- gust at Charles Moore's malicious diatribe in the 15 May issue of The Spectator (Another voice). It seems that there is some sort......

Cook's Slicing Edge

Sir: Reviews are very much the luck of the draw, good or bad, but when three novels on the same theme are published together — A Dead Man in Deptford by Anthony Burgess, The......

Letters Bogus Honker

Sir: There is no mystery about my mistrust of Alan Clark. It is not the product of sexu- al jealousy, as Taki (High life, 15 May) claims. I was not aware of his sexual prowess,......

Sir: In Your Issue Of 1 May (`truth Might Out'),

you say, 'If Alan Clark had been com- pletely honest with Customs and Excise, the [Matrix-Churchill] prosecutions could not have been started'. You may be right in your belief,......