27 JUNE 1992, page 25

Pudding Snub

Sir: Petronella Wyatt wrote about summer pudding (Summer food and drink, 6 June). To economise on my fellow-contributor's blushes, may I say only that her principal sources......

Daft Bucker

Sir: Nigel Spivey ('Meditations on an F- theme', 20 June) belongs to a grand old Spectator tradition. I remember in 1949 or 1950 Wilson Har- ris using the Diary to deplore the......

Stick From Carrot

Sir: I had feared my account of George Walden's mental acrobatics on Maastricht (`The turning of the Tories', 13 June) might draw a drop of blood; little did I expect to draw......

Letters

Hard times Sir: Mr David Coleridge is lucky to have a son so prepared to leap to his defence (Tay up, pay up and play the game', 30 May). But in defending his father Nicholas......

Novel Argument

Sir: Further to Martyn Harris's attack on me (Letters, 13 June), I discover I owe him an apology. When I claimed he had said he found stretching his idea a big problem while......