In Popular Culture
Havers was portrayed by Peter Blythe in the 2002 BBC production of Ian Curteis's controversial The Falklands Play. On an occasion when he delayed making a decision, he was the subject of one of the shortest ever letters to The Times newspaper - a letter which ran as follows:
Sir,
Michael Havers.
As ever,
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