Pricking bubbles
Sir: As a long-standing reader of the Spectator, the only occasions on which I can recall being moved to write to the Editor have arisen upon reading some attack or other on Auberon Waugh. I have resisted the temptation to do so, on the good grounds that Waugh can take care of himself and probably doesn't much care what lesser men may say of him. That I should write now is due to his piece on Rees-Mogg (28 February).
I suspect that Waugh's indifference to hostile criticism may well extend to letters in praise of him, and so I shall avoid being unnecessarily effusive. Permit me to say, however, that in his piece on Mogg, he has at last and succinctly managed to portray the true Mrs Williams and her unrepentant and disastrous past history. Should she establish an alliance with Mr David Steel of abortion law notoriety, it is to be hoped that Auberon Waugh will see fit to continue his not unimportant pricking of the centrist bubble.
P. Newman University College of North Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd
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