Am I Alone in Thinking...?: Unpublished Letters to the Daily Telegraph
(By Iain Hollingshead)
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“… Readers of the ‘brilliant ‘Telegraph’ Letters page’, as Ian Hislop recently lauded it, will be fondly aware of the eclectic combination of learned wisdom, wistful nostalgia and robust good sense that characterise its correspondence.
But what of the 95% of the paper’s huge postbag which never sees the light of day? Some of the best letters inevitably arrive too late for the 24/7 news cycle, or don’t quite fit in with the rest of the day’s selection. Others are just a little too whimsical, or indeed to risqué, to publish in a serous newspaper. And more than a few are completely and utterly (and wonderfully) mad, such as the missives you’ll find within these pages from someone who signs himself merely as ‘M’, and believes himself to be the head of MI6.
Now, the ‘Telegraph’ gives the authors of these unpublished letters the stage at last. Baffled, furious, defiant, mischievous, they inveigh and speculate on every subject under the sun, from the rubbish on television these days to the venality of our MPs, from Kate Winslet’s décolletage to this country’s unhealthy obsession with marmalade. All those ‘Telegraph’ readers who wondered if anyone else had noticed that the lunatics had finally taken over the asylum and sat down to write to their favorite newspaper to test the waters – they need howl into the void no longer. They are not alone.””
