Allow me to compliment you on the calm you displayed throughout, despite the ceaseless interruptions which hindered the presentation of your intriguing case. The impression left in the mind of an onlooker was that you had been exploited: no serious attention was paid to what you had to say and you were interrupted and talked over time and again. Mr. Sebastian has yet to learn the distinction between aggressive interviewing and ill-breeding.

May I ask where your views are set out? I live not in England but in Bangkok where book reviews are not easily to be had.

Paul McDermott