Do You Have In Your Archive...

Following on from my recent run-in with the TaxPayers' Alliance in the letters page of The Times, a friend has requested that I dig out my old letter in Private Eye (Issue 1282, February 18, 2011, p. 17) - a request which I'm only too happy to fulfil.

I've been an avid Private Eye reader since 1998, and I think I'm prouder of this meagre little titbit than anything else I've ever published. It's not getting a letter in the Eye per se which had me so chuffed when I was a humble PhD student; it was getting an Andrew Neil letter in the Eye - a proud and venerable national institution (unless you happen to be the long-suffering Mr Neil). I think I might just quit while I'm ahead, and retire from letter-writing to publications.