Mount Pleasant
Sir: The middle of the summer will see the celebration of the diamond jubilee of the opening of Mount Pleasant, and the silver jubilee of the subsequent move to Reigate. Many of......
Sir: Peregrine Worsthorne's Diary Piece About A. J. Ayer And
reactions to his death raises the interesting and important ques- tion of how much respect we owe to the immediately dead. For what it is worth, my view is that we should strive......
Sir: A Propos Of Ayer's Intellectual Jeux D'esprit (if That
is all they were) a friend of his protests at 'the educated public's hostil- ity to analytical philosophy'. I am reminded of the visit of the great Renaissance scholar,......
Sir: Reading Lord Halifax's Autobiography Fulness Of Days...
come across an early instance of American interest in Hong Kong's future. In 1945 FDR proposed that King George VI and Chiang Kai-shek should together order the following......
Letters
Hong Kong water Sir: The Hong Kong civil servant (Letters, 24 June) who congratulated you on your article concerning the rights of the British subjects might be asked why it has......
Misleading Article
Sir: In his Diary (15 July), Peregrine Worsthorne attacks Freddie Ayer for asking to be re-elected to the Garrick Club after hearing that his wife (my mother) was dying of......
Sir: You Properly Criticised (leading Arti- Cle, 8 July) Mr
Gerald Kaufman's objec- tion that if you took the Hong Kong people, you might have to take white British passports holders from 'racist' South Africa. To your accusations of......
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