11 OCTOBER 1997, page 35

There Were No Photocalls

Sir: I do not know how much of the rest of Mark Honigsbaum's article on 'Diana and the tabloids: the real story' (27 September) has been sucked out of his thumb, but I can say......

Sir: Reading Victoria Brittain's Letter, One Is Reminded...

Orwell's 'generation of unteachables hanging around our necks like a necklace of corpses'. Several of the 'radical movements' which she and her Guardian colleagues reported......

Sir: Surely It Is Time To Give A Column To

Michael Cole now that a vacancy has occurred. This would probably leave room for three more letters a week. D.J. Pimblett Rose Cottage, Horbury, W. Yorkshire......

Not So Funny

Sir: How kind of Mr Damant (Letters, 20 September) to set me right once more with the aid of his trusty informant who is quot- ing custom and law in modern Germany. In Austria......

Self-pride And Vainglory

Sir: My old friend Paul Johnson miscon- strues my remark in the James Bryce Lec- ture (And another thing, 27 September). My point was not at all that many Ameri- cans believe......

Cocktail Socialists

Sir: Pace Petronella Wyatt on New Labour's Brighton champagne (`The love of power', 4 October), I well remember my father complaining in the mid-Forties that he could hardly get......