Sandelson's Support

Sir: Michael Trend, reporting from Cam- bridge (`Shirley slips back', 30 May), stated that I was there supporting Robert Rhodes James, the Conservative candidate. In fact I have......

Ancestral Rights In Fiji

Sir: May I seek to throw some light on current events in Fiji and particularly in defence of Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka, who seems widely to have been traduced in the media at......

Serial Rights

Sir: Your reviewer, David Sexton (Books, 30 May), reports that 'the Sunday Times claims to have spent £850,000' to acquire the serial rights to An Affair of State, the new book......

Derby Day

Sir: Your advertisement in today's Inde- pendent (5 June) claims that this week's Spectator (6 June) includes a contribution from Jeffrey Bernard. On parting with my pound, I......

Bored

Sir: I find your advertisements for Aims of Industry somewhat tedious. Patrick French The Residence, 17 Royal Crescent, Edinburgh.......

Not Beastly

Sir: I am not of Henry VIII's opinion (Letters, 6 June). I think both Yorkshire and Lincolnshire the most magnificant of English counties. A. L. Rowse Trenarren House, St......