24 JUNE 1989, page 25

Hong Kong

Sir: Congratulations. But as a civil servant, I must remain Anonymous Hong Kong......

Honourable Exception

Sir: In The Spectator of 17 June ('Honour- able gentlemen') you quote me as writing: It would have been better for China, as well as the students themselves, if they had......

Language Problems

Sir: I should like to applaud Donald Michie's article (`Jasper Lupo's Spaghetti Code', 3 June) which tackles, quite success- fully I think, the task of alerting the lay reader......

Pollstering

Sir: Pace Michael Trend (`From Tyler to Thatcher', 10 June), there has never been any doubt that the community charge could be successfully, if expensively, implemen- ted. This......

Letters

Salman Rushdie Sir: Paul Johnson's article on the Salman Rushdie case ('When the cursing had to stop', 17 June) is based on several factual and logical errors. He says that the......