20 JANUARY 2007, Page 16

Competing Greens

From Paul Callan Sir: Charles Moore's punning comment 'How Green Is Your Valet?' (The Spectator's Notes, 13 January) on the race among Cameronite politicos for the poshest eco-friendly car reminds me of a contest among the young reporters when I edited the Evening Standard diary in the 1960s. Everyone searched for a story about the then director-general of the BBC, Sir Hugh Carleton Greene, resigning to enter domestic service. We could then run the headline 'Hugh Greene Was My Valet'. Ah, halcyon days.

Paul Callan London SW10