25 MARCH 2000, page 35

Wine Testing

From Sir Kenneth Warren Sir: That distinguished sommelier Sir David Mitchell deserves a bar to his ribbon of office for squandering his largesse on the self-confessed soaks whom......

From Major General Ken Perkins Sir: Jamie Shea (diary, 18

March) claims that, during its intervention in Kosovo, Nato 'took maximum steps to avoid civilian casualties, even at the risk of a loss in mili- tary effectiveness'. It did......

Banana Power

From Mr David Long Sir: Whether or not the old tale is true about Perkins diesels running on peanut butter (Arts, 18 March), Alan Judd neglects to mention another notable......

D Emocratic Judgment From Mr Frank A. Kelly, Jr Sir: I

would like to comment on Mark Steyn's article of 4 March (`The rise of the FU movement') in which he decries the judicial tyranny imposed on helpless elec- torates at the behest......

Guianan Escapade

From Mr Leslie Slater Sir: 'When the last Prince of Wales visited Guyana in 1923, he caused a scandal' is the opening sentence of Robert Hardman's article ('King of Hearts', 4......

No Joke

From Sir Philip Goodhart Sir: Your correspondent, Michael Vestey (Letters, 11 March), is wrong. Lee Bhum Suk was not a Burmese foreign minister; he was the South Korean foreign......