Peter Millar

The Financial Times recently published on its letters page a homage to lounge bars with their once plush carpets, odours of stale beer and cigarettes which were conducive to intellectual debate and solving the world's problems. Glad to see that appearing in the file picture to illustrate the letter's argument was none other than Peter Millar with his trademark ringlets, propping up a bar, clutching a half consumed pint and holding forth. Neither the drinker nor the pub were identified but clearly Peter is a well used file picture on this subject. I wonder why...

Letter to the Financial Times

[The latest book by Peter Millar, Reuters correspondent from 1977 to 1985, is 1989: The Berlin Wall: My Part in its Downfall, published in 2009. He will be guest speaker at the next meeting of The Reuter Society on Thursday 4 March - Editor.] ■