21 JUNE 1997, page 24

Perry Worsthorne Ha Ha Ha!

Sir: I note with interest that both George Melly and Peregrine Worsthorne are now writing letters to your paper and it appears that they were both at Stowe together. I was also......

You Read It Here First

Sir: Several of your correspondents have recently castigated the films of Alfred Hitch- cock. None has mentioned that a dismissive judgment was delivered 61 years ago by Gra-......

Saintly Sub-editors

Sir: If Alastair Forbes (Letters, 14 June) wants to know why his articles occasionally contain printing errors, I can tell him. It is because he writes barely intelligible sen-......

Ha'away, No Way

Sir: I have lived for most of my 71 years within a mile or two of the River Tyne and consider myself to be a 'Geordie', which is perhaps why I particularly enjoyed Anne......

Philosophical Influences

Sir: Alice von Schlieffen criticises me (Let- ters, 7 June) for not replying to her claim made in April that 'where the Kaiser failed Kohl has triumphed' in achieving Ger-......