Vandal Mp

Sir: In your issue for 6 June, I concluded my paragraph on my voting intentions by stating that, 'if I lived in Cambridge it would be a duty to vote Conservative, but I don't so......

Fellow

Sir: This fellow Nigel Dempster mentioned in Taki's column (20 June) as having been present at Sir James Goldsmith's election night party — surely it can't be the same Dempster......

Cut Off

Sir: What joy to read Michael Trend on the exasperating subject of British Telecom (4 July). BT cut me off for three months because I withheld payment of a surprising- ly large......

Arcimboldo In India

Sir: I was interested by the review of The Arcrirnboldo Effect (Books, 30 May 1987). The art gallery of the City Palace in Jaipur has a couple of examples of this genre, one an......

Fogey

Sir: That old fogey called Johnson (The media, 27 June) is as inaccurate as his fellow journalists. I have not 'whined' at a pub- lishing takeover by any American firm. In a......

Bad Prayers

Sir: Mary Soames says that we should all now surrender to modernised church ser- vices (Diary, 4 July) because it is simply too much trouble to resist them. She supports her......

Spem The Or

Book of Imperative Cooking Digby Anderson In a witty but uncompromising style, Spectator defies „hi:, current Andersons p e t trend of popular food columns and easy-to-follow......