5 OCTOBER 1996, page 40

Hitler's Mistake

Sir: Milton Shulman's article (Teaching the truth about the war', 27 September) contains some highly speculative assertions about the reasons for Hitler's defeat. He makes the......

Sir: Taki's Attack On Max Hastings (high Life, 13 September)

was very amusing indeed — provided one is not Max Hast- ings. But I know of another side to the coin. A while ago, a wildlife charity of which I was a trustee went into......

A Little Too Gallant

Sir: Tunku Varadarajan, of the Times, dis- interestedly leaps (Letters, 28 September) to the defence of his colleague Rachel Campbell-Johnston, to tell us she is 'writing......

Further Selection

Sir: May anyone join in selecting the Com- posers' XI? I think room should be found for Britten, not only because he must be the only composer to have been captain of his prep......

Honest Opinion

Sir: Once a hack, always a hack. Lord Deedes suggests in his letter (28 Septem- ber) that my 'intemperate attack on Max Hastings relates . . . to some bruising encounter with......

Trivial Information

Sir: As the reporter on the William Hickey column of the Daily Express who spoke (twice) to your Low life columnist, Jeffrey Bernard, about his Spectator lunch, I was surprised......