17 JANUARY 1998, page 26

Sir: Mr Mackenzie's Requests For More Police Co-operation...

press find an anticipated answer in Stephen Glover's piece, (Media studies, 6 December), 'You too could be pictured and named in con- nection with heinous crimes — while inno-......

Letters Well Informed

Sir: In the Diary of 3 January, Simon Sebag Montefiore ridicules a recent British ambassador to the Soviet Union for failing to foresee the end of the Union. It does not seem to......

Sir: Kelvin Mackenzie Has Discovered That Crime Is Being...

up as a result of self- interest. He may also be interested to know that many of the more horrible crimes today remain unreported, presumably in the public interest but more......

Lowering The Tone

Sir: I enjoy my Spectator and I am not going to cancel my subscription; I am not at all politically correct and I really don't give a LETTERS damn. But are you keeping an eye on......

Fair Cop

Sir: Any of your readers who follow the news will no doubt be surprised by Kelvin MacKenzie's claim that I have 'gagged the press' (`The great Condon cover-up', 10 January). Not......

Effective Opposition

Sir: To assert, as you did in your leader (10 January), that any increase in government funds for the opposition parties would be used well by the Conservatives and would be......

Chippy Chappie

Sir: Count Tolstoy has prudently aban- doned his attempted defence of James II and the 'Bloody Assizes' (Letters, 10 Jan- uary). If he will now consult the best authorities —......