26 APRIL 1997, page 28

Sir: In The Last 20 Years Can There Have Been

a single group who have been more publicly humiliated and discredited than the intel- lectual Left? That Robert Taylor was able to find anyone willing to be quoted as such is......

Sir: In Her Haste To Poke Fun At The 'antics'

of the BEF (Letters, 12 April), Alice von Schlieffen has peddled one moth-eaten myth, that the BEF from 1914 to 1918 was led by a cabal of cavalrymen'. Of the army commanders in......

The Best-laid Plans . . .

Sir: Churchill may well have predicted the failure of the German offensive (Letters, 19 April), but was this anything other than an inspired belligerent guess? In view of his......

Letters Intellectual Disgrace

Sir: I congratulate Robert Taylor on reveal- ing the intellectual bankruptcy of the so- called intellectuals of the Left (`Chattering against Mr Blair', 19 April). No wonder New......

Sir: I Was Amused To Open My Spectator And Find

that — in a spirited attempt to identify non-Conservative opponents of New Labour — Robert Taylor casts me in that role. Sorry to be a wet blanket, but Mr Tay- lor's imagination......