26 SEPTEMBER 1998, page 31

Sir: I Suspect That Most Right-thinking Englishmen Are...

sick to the back teeth of being lectured by the likes of Pere- grine Worsthorne on the undesirability of English nationalism. The intelligentsia of this country have for too......

Sir: Sir Peregrine Worsthorne's Article With Which I Do Not

fundamentally disagree — would be more persuasive if it didn't dis- play his ignorance of history. He writes, inter alia, of foreign threats from Catholic Spain and Bourbon......

Sir: Peregrine Worsthorne, Like Most Englishmen...

neighbours, puts his foot in his mouth: 'I . . . gloried in the heroism of Robert the Bruce and William Wallace quite as much as that of the Black Prince or Henry V.' William......

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Hong Kong hostility Sir: You give prominence to a review by Henry Keswick of Chris Patten's East and West (Books, 19 September). You note that Mr Keswick has extensive interests......

English Nationalism Sir: Although Peregrine Worsthorne...

the United King- dom (`England don't arise!', 19 Septem- ber), I feel I should point out that the sec- ond paragraph in his article displays the sort of insensitive English......