23 AUGUST 1986, page 17

Hat And Pot Sir: It Is True, As Gavin Stamp

says (New Orthodoxies, 2 August) that there is as yet no musical Post-Modernist movement. But music went through a 'post-modernist' phase some 60 years ago, under the name of......

Doomed To Extinction

Sir: Politics aside, South Africa is famed for gold, diamonds, Table Mountain and the Kruger National Park. In a country as wildlife- and conservation-conscious as South Africa......

Seaside Views

Sir: Apropos Alan Powers's Hastings litho- graph (9 August), readers may be in- terested to hear what G. K. Chesterton thought: I think the people of this town must be the most......

Unhealthy

Sir: Your National Health Service may not be 'the envy of the world' (National Health goes sick', 9 August), but on a day when I have just handed £8 to my G P (for three minutes......

Letters Surrey In Danger

Sir: The Spectator is the first publication I have seen to suggest that the next election will be largely influenced by environmental issues. Andrew Gimson's article on the sad......

Walker Run Down

Sir: Ever since Martin Walker was appointed Moscow correspondent of the Guardian, Tim Garton Ash has used your columns to denounce him, often with undergraduate-standard......

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