After reading the letter "our man in Berlin", Sir Paul Lever, sent to Charles Moore in Friday's Daily Telegraph, I was surprised and sorry to read in today's Telegraph that your chairman, Conrad Black, still intends to pursue his libel case against him (Black sues envoy over 'bias' claim, 24 March 2000;  I resent being called an outsider, says Black).

I have the strong and unpleasant impression that he is misusing his influential position as a newspaper proprietor to bully the ambassador.

The ambassador's expressed views on the highly biased anti-German/European reporting in sections of the British press are quite sound, and Mr Black's accusations of "defamation and stupidity" against him are completely unjustified.

Sir Paul is not the only one with the impression that the Daily Telegraph's reporting of German and European affairs is not always without a certain bias. Its frequently used synonym for Britain joining
the European currency is "scraping the pound", which is hardly an example of serious, unbiased journalism. And just a couple of weeks ago I felt compelled to send a letter of complaint to you in response to an article by your Berlin correspondent, who referred to Angela Merkel as "the woman who made her name by betraying Helmut Kohl", which, however, you chose not to publish (It is not Angela Merkel but Helmut Kohl who is guilty of "betrayal", 6 March 2000).