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......
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