22 NOVEMBER 1997, page 36

Young Popinjays

Sir: Precocious young Tapers and Tadpoles can be pardoned for preferring the bright lights to the dusty backrooms of party offices (`The rise of the politocracy', 15 November).......

More Cash Questions

Sir: Mr Mike Al Cole has been uncharac- teristically quiet recently. I thought he must be busy finishing his new book, Famous Last Words. Or was he inadvertently locked in the......

Letters Trial And Error

Sir: I hope that Mark Steyn (`The appeal Louise lost', 15 November) will accept that many of us here regarded the conduct of those occupants of a pub in Louise Wood- ward's home......