11 SEPTEMBER 2004, Page 32

Simian sobriquets

From John Reynolds Sir: Corrupt, vicious and incompetent — the President of Equatorial Guinea may well deserve all of these epithets ('Help me, wonga', 4 September). But 'a monkey' and 'the ape'? Such language tells us more about Rod Liddle than it does about President Obiang.

John Reynolds

Wadhurst, East Sussex