17 AUGUST 1991, Page 24

Greek to him

Sir: Following the discovery of a reference. in Aeschylus to the misfortunes of the previous Member for Billericay, which you kindly printed a year or two ago, may I offer you these verses to celebrate the recent case of Teresa Gorman vs Mudd — a corrective to the poet's libel of dust as 'mud's thirsty sister'.

H Hat. Euvoupov, -runAe , uaXXov n eemte 5L tin ov GE }tax arcorp.oc Toxri (Bad luck, mud. Now you are even thir- stier than your sister.) Colin Haycraft

Chairman, Gerald Duckworth and Co Ltd, 48 Hoxton Square, London Ni