Lunchtime Oborne
From Mr Jeff Randall Sir: I was amused to read Peter Oborne's report (`Table manners', 16/23 December) on poor manners among Britain's wining- and-dining classes. Quite rightly, he is dis- turbed by the growing number of professional lunchers who consume handsomely at other people's expense but don't bother to write thank-you notes.
Was the author, by any chance, the same Peter Oborne whom, two months ago, I treated to a long lunch at Lingfield race- course, where he quickly identified the only decent claret on an otherwise undistin- guished wine list and quaffed large quanti- ties thereof?
The bill that day would have wiped out the national debt of a medium-sized banana republic. Yet, inexplicably, I have still to receive a letter of thanks from my old friend. I must have a word with the postman.
Jeff Randall
Editor, Sunday Business, London EC1
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