Uninsular
Sir: I wish Auberon Waugh would stop being so silly about Mrs Thatcher. Buf- foonery, of course; but does anyone find it funny?
'The insular, oppressive futility which this woman now represents' (Another voice, 17 September). Insular? No British Prime Minister this century, except Chur- chill, is more admired around the world. Not only in America but also in Russia; Socialists like President Mitterrand and the Prime Minister of Spain respect and admire her.
Not apparently Auberon. He might take a lesson from them.
London journalists make a great mistake in lookin- at politics and affairs from the parochial derspective of London. The country at large thinks otherwise.
'hat is how they get caught out — as I 1, to instruct Miss Anita Brookner the other day. Why don't they learn? Intellec- tuals seem incapable of it — too conceited,
I suppose.
A. L. Rowse
St Austell, Cornwall
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