4 NOVEMBER 1995, page 31

Letters Puffed Up With Pride

Sir: Reviewing the political journalism of the late Peter Jenkins (Books, 14 October), Geoffrey Wheatcroft lists a dozen more or less prominent Cambridge-educated jour- nalists,......

Curmudgeonly Courtesy

Sir: I hope it is not too late to make a per- sonal comment on Kingsley Amis's kind- ness of heart — a quality which, according to Charles Moore (`Memories of a great novelist',......

Parental Plug

Sir: Who is Auberon Waugh trying to kid (Another voice, 28 October)? We all know that Sophie Watson is his daughter and this blatant plugging of her novel is pilgerish to say......

Danger To The Public

Sir: It is, of course, sad to read of a young man's terrible accident on a motorcycle in Your 'High life' column (21 October). What, I wonder, happened to the poor man in the......

Shoddy Work

Sir: It was interesting to read the account by Martin Vander Weyer (`Trains and boats and planes ... ', 28 October) of cross- Channel ferries. My own, and only, experi- ence was......

Don't Forget Tibet

Sir: Ma Yuzhen writes: 'China's modern history is ... never one of territorial expan- sion or invasion of other countries' (Let- ters, 28 October). What about Tibet? China has......

Sir: Kingsley Amis Was Not Opposed To Accepting...

publications other than The Spectator. In 1984 he agreed to become the Daily Mirror's poetry editor, a position he held until the arrival of Robert Maxwell ('Why are we paying......