Awfully Clever

Sir: Your funny television critic Richard In- grams says I am an awful man because I us- ed to contribute to the Forum magazine — 'and for all I know he still does' (26......

The Rivals

Sir: Christopher Booker's review of The Guinness Book of Records (17 February) discusses several dubious aspects of this curious publication, but not the rather im- Portant......

In The' Ring

Sir: Your book review (15 January) of The Viceroys of India recounted one well- known anecdote about the Willingdons: your readers are entitled to another. Lord Willingdon, a......

Outrage

Sir: Can the extraordinary Mr Worsthorne be serious in his feigned shock at the relative honesty of the staff and gentlemen of the Turf — that most genial of clubs, whose walls......

Israel's Responsibility

Sir: Christopher Hitchens (19 February) denies that the fuss about Israeli complicity in the massacres of Sabra and Chatila has anything to do with anti-semitism. He pro- tests......

Counter Claim

Sir: In his otherwise estimable Political commentary (26 February) Colin Welch states: 'It is surely absurd to treat Soviet Russia as Lord Sainsbury treated the Kaiser or Tsar......