Alexei Sayle’s review of David Aaronovitch’s Party Animals (Review,2 December) reflects the extent to which present-day cultural life is powered by the personal grudges of children against parents, lovers against those who dumped them, and wannabes against those who scorned them. These days,as the socialist baby goes out with the communist bathwater, it’s not Cyril Connolly’s buggy in the corridor” (DJ Taylor, or same issue) that inhibits writers from saying what people “might not wish to hear” so much as the rear extension.
Steve Gooch
Robertsbridge,East Sussex• Depressing that the main use that government sees for modern technology is to test 19th-century rote learning (Report, 4 January). Nicky Morgan seems to share Michael Gove’s unfamiliar obsession with the pointless 12 times table. Is there a hidden agenda: to leave the EU, and then reintroduce shillings and pence,and feet and inches? Or is this the normal attempt to distract attention from the genuine problems in education, like class sizes and teacher shortages?
Averil Lewin
Ely, or CambridgeshireContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com