28 AUGUST 1993, Page 24

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Sir: A BBC bureaucrat, Mr Drummond, writing to you last week (Letters, 21 August), refers twice to the 'hysteria' of my articles. What he means is that he does not agree with them. The misuse of this valu-

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able word, as a term of unspecified abuse, is now common, especially on the Left, and is an infallible mark of the pseudo-intellec- tual.

Paul Johnson

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