No Time To Read

Sir: The only time I ever met Auberon Waugh was during the celebrated libel case between Peregrine Worsthorne and Andrew Neil, when I was in the piquant position, as co-suee......

Only Obeying Orders

Sir: In his review (Books, 12 February) of David Smiley's latest book, Simon Cour- tauld describes me as writing dismissively of Smiley and his companions in Albania. On the......

Churchill's Handicap

Sir: Of the various charges levelled against Harold Macmillan in Simon Heffer's article (`Centenary of a double-crosser', 5 Febru- ary), surely the most damaging was Enoch......

Sex On The Rock

Sir: Simon Courtauld is quite wrong to accuse the Bishop of Gibraltar of depriving the Royal Navy of 'much needed' relax- ation (`No sex on the Rock', 19 February). The present......

The Two Marcuses

Sir: 'No rock band has ever re-formed and made a good job of it,' Marcus Berkmann (Arts, 5 February) would have us believe. Could this be the same Marcus Berkmann who went weak......

Book Plug

Sir: I do not know all the foreign scholars that perplexed Paul Johnson in his review of the Braudel book (Books, 26 February), but I do know Louis Massignon. His doc- toral......

Sir: It Is Absurd For Simon Courtauld To Blame The

Catholic Bishop of Gibraltar for the present sitation there. Gibraltar is obvi- ously modelled on an English provincial town of about 50 years ago. During my National Service I......