28 FEBRUARY 1998, Page 24

Covered with glory

Sir: No doubt you have already had a mass of correspondence on the subject, but may I say that I think that Jonathan Wateridge's recent Spectator cover pictures are abso- lutely superb?

Mandelson and Blair were brilliant (14 February), but Richard Branson (21 Febru- ary) surpassed the lot. Mr Wateridge gets exactly the right look in the eyes of his sub- jects, and is, I think, the only one to get Blair's lower lip and jaw right without laps- ing into caricature.

Fantastic!

Tom Thatcher

Buxbury Farm, Sutton Mandeville, Salisbury, Wilts