4 JANUARY 1997, page 24

Castro's Ok

Sir: I wish to cancel my subscription to The Spectator immediately because of your arti- cle The spy of the century' (23 November), in which someone called James Srodes does a......

Titillation Missed

Sir: I miss your advertisement on the last pages of The Spectator for the Erotic Print Society. I found it pictorially wildly titillat- ing rather like the foul words which......

Double Vision

Sir: I wonder whether your otherwise admirable television critic, James Deling- pole, has been suffering from festivity fatigue (Arts, 14/21 December)? I have been known to......

Self-correction

Sir: I should like to make three additions or corrections to my review The Oxford Book of Political Quotations (14/21 December). First, Harold Wilson said . . I am going on' at......

No Myth

Sir: Lindsey Platt (Letters, 7 December) has wilfully misrepresented what I original- ly wrote in a pathetic attempt to score a cheap point. My question about whether......

Bitter And Unkind

Sir: Barbara Ward once advised me that one should never rebut a journalist's state- ment, however outrageous, as it only con- firms to the reader the truth of the original......

False And Absurd

Sir: Alastair Forbes's review of David Dut- ton's book on Anthony Eden (Books, 14/21 December) contrived to be largely about himself and scarcely deserved comment. However, for......

Jaspistos Superstars

Sir: Familiarity breeds . . . well, curiosity. Week after week, the same names pop up as winners or honourable mentions in the competition — Tingley, Norman, Petty and that ilk......