This is at least the 4th time this month I've wanted to access something on the times so... signed up for at least a 3 month trial.
The original letter to the editor is short:
Sir, I am — as he knows — an enthusiastic admirer of Giles Coren, but he is badly misinformed about Wikipedia (“Why stop at Trump?”, Dec 12). As a writer of history I resort to it at least a dozen times a day. I could never have written my last two books without it, and I have never caught it out yet, which is more than I can say of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Its range is astonishing: it is almost impossible to find a person, place or subject that it has left uncovered.
I believe that we now have at our elbow a work of reference as useful as any in existence; I can only implore Giles and any others who doubt these words to cast aside their prejudices and try it for themselves. As for me, I can’t believe my luck.
John Julius Norwich
London, W9
There are some good comments too. The #1 is a poem which is awesome:
ROBERT Vincent2 days agoAt breakfast John Julius Norwich
nearly choked on a spoonful of porridge
when Giles Coren, he'd heard,
had clamed it absurd
for research Wikipedia to forage.