30 SEPTEMBER 1995, Page 32

Critic's critics

Sir: Richard Dorment writes (Letters, 23 September) that Gilbert and George's `habit of saying what nobody else dares to say about life in modern Britain . . . earns them a huge popular following'. To para- phrase Sir Kingsley Amis's Jim Dixon: `Earns them a what popular following? Earns them a huge what following? Earns them a huge popular what?'

Chris Smith

The Schoolhouse, Out Skerries, Shetland