14 JUNE 1986, Page 25

The Forbes effect

Sir: Who in the name of sanity is A. N. Wilson that he is given four columns (`Goodbye to Grub Street', 31 May) on why he is giving up reviewing? The new G. B. Shaw? I know he once wrote an article elsewhere about my cousin Mgr Gilbey, but your indulgence goes too far. It is not quite the first time that I have cast your publication aside in exasperation, Alistair Forbes always has that effect, but nearly.

Anthony Gilbey

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