1 SEPTEMBER 1990, Page 24

English vice

Sir: Hypocrisy is said to be a peculiarly English vice. The gentlemen with solemn faces who are so offended when the con- ventional veil is drawn aside from some public personage ('England his England', 18 August) make me suspect, alas, that there is some truth in the legend.

R. M Blomfield

147 Banks Road, Sandbanks, Poole, Dorset