18 SEPTEMBER 1993, Page 28

Broad church

Sir: `. . Like Northcliffe before him, he [Mr Rupert Murdoch] is determined to have a go and see how a cheap Times will fare. I think he will be proved wrong, as of course Northcliffe was.' (And another thing, 11 September) `Northcliffe, when he controlled the Times, devalued it from threepence to one penny . . . As a commercial gambit, it worked . . . ' (City and suburban, 11 September)

Shurely shome inconshishtenshy? (Not Ed.)

M.P.J. Lynch

Hillside, Combe Hill, Combe St Nicholas, Chard, Somerset