11 SEPTEMBER 1999, Page 31

Ever so common

From Mr Philip E. Roe Sir: Taki writes (High life, 28 August) that the behaviour of Neil Kinnock and his wife would have made his female friend 'die of shame if she had been English'. The Kin- nocks are Welsh.

Philip E. Roe 157 Verulam Road, St Albans, Herts