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Letter to The Spectator Samuel Brittan The Spectator From Samuel Brittan It is a sound convention that authors do not take issue with reviewers. But part of the same convention is that reviewers refrain from inaccurate or misleading accounts of what the author has written. Tim Congdon, in his review of my book Against the Flow (March 19), claims, on the basis of my suggestion that industrial nations should reduce their dependence on Middle Eastern oil, that I recommended that the Middle East "should be cut out of the international trading system". Congdon's own unsureness about his inference is betrayed by his tell-tale words, “in essence”, in front of it. May I suggest that anyone interested should look at the section in question (Pages 20-23) and judge for him or her self?. Samuel Brittan SE1
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