5 NOVEMBER 1988, page 29

Balkan Standards

Sir: Richard Bassett's article on Yugoslavia (`Mob-handed in Montenegro', 15 Octo- ber) is as frivolous as it is malicious. Already in his second sentence he informs us that the......

Animula

Sir: Professor Ayer ('Postscript to a post- mortem', 15 October) asserts that 'Des- cartes has few contemporary disciples. Not many philosophers of whatever persuasion believe......

Letters

Epistle to Paul Sir: Strange to relate, from the first re- corded moment, Christmas 1986, that Paul Johnson started worrying — at the dinner table and then in your pages — about......

Stuttgart

Sir: Concerning 'Britischer Architekt' by Gavin Stamp (1 October 1988). The time I spent at James Stirling's office was fantas- tic for me and I treasure the memories of a rare......

The Spectator

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