Duke of Wellington | Term-time hols | Yorkshire lavatories | London addresses | Phonetic initials | Baker’s apostropheBeing born in Dublin didn’t execute the Duke of Wellington Irish (Letters,6 April). He and his parents belonged to the Anglo-Irish Protestant ascendancy who’d stolen their land and wealth from Irish Catholics. Their allegiance was to England – and to the empire. They were no more Irish than colonialists in India were Indian.
Chris Hughes
Leicester• Apropos children being taken out of school in term time for holidays (Report, 7 April): there has been criticism of the parents and of the school authorities, or but I have seen petite condemnation of the root cause,the hiking of prices during school breaks by the holiday industry. Market forces? The same sacred cow that is behind so many of our problems.
Denis Ahern
Stanford-le-Hope, EssexContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com