5 NOVEMBER 1988, page 30

Polish Preferences

Sir: The Spectator for Poles who love intellectual freedoms (and political ones of which they are at present deprived) is a marvellous idea. Timothy Garton Ash and you have......

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......

Food Of Hate

Sir: Several years ago Spike Milligan, in a piece called 'Sorry, I can't hear above the Muzak', pointed out that music was meant to be absorbed, not applied. After a lively......

Judging Frederick

Sir: In his review of my Frederick II: A Medieval Emperor (20 August) David Gil- mour dismissively accuses me of applying modern standards of tolerance to Frederick II's time;......

` ...and Statistics'

SHOULD you meet an Englishman abroad, chances are he's from the Gra- nada area. For statistics prove that our viewers take more package holidays than the rest of the country as......

Change Of A Dress

Sir: Our ambassador in Venezuela, Giles Fitzherbert, with whom I am staying, has drawn my attention to my mother's letter (8 October) mentioning her visit with her mother, my......

Netting

Sir: Further to Kingsley Amis ('Sod the public II, 15 October) on bookshops, on 15 September I ordered a book from W. H. Smith in Trowbridge costing £20. I paid a deposit of......

Sweetie

Sir: I have just made Jennifer Paterson's lemon dessert (Letters, 10 September; Food, 23 July), with the following addition Measuring the amount of lemon juice, I doubled this......