23 NOVEMBER 1996, page 34

Letters Powerless Aristocrats

Sir: I have been working this year on a book with a similar theme to John Martin Robinson's (`Still the top class', 16 November), although only in the capacity of 'research......

Dorn Orf

Sir: Your excellent cover picture (16 November) is spoilt by 'Get orf. This would have been right 60 years ago, but since then `orf has `gorn' for ever. David Greenhaigh 3......

Irrelevant

Sir: Simon Sebag-Montefiore (Wafic? What about Basil?' 16 November) says I said, 'Mediaeval Church politics depended on the export of sophisticated weaponry to foreigners.' That......

Proops Maligned

Sir: Thank God Mary Kenny doesn't claim to be one of her model agony aunts because • then she, according to her, would be one of our moral philosophers. As it is, in her arti-......