Letters: Powell position

I was delighted to read the extracts in The Independent Magazine from Anthony Powell's Journals ("At Lady Maggie's...", 21 January) and to marvel at the gentle mockery and delicate self-parody which was displayed. The balance was perfect. No satirist would report Thatcher's words to Tito as "I am politics" and avoid exaggerations such as "We are politics" or "Politics R us".

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