Ever since your feature extolling the virtues of travel to the republic of San Serriffe I’ve awaited the Guardian’s 1 April spoof with all of the excitement of a small child on Christmas Day. This year’s effort,I’m afraid, was a disappointment. To have a front-page article in which it is claimed that the government wants to “secure a long-term future for Port Talbot and for other steel plants in the UK” is lazy journalism at its very worst. That said, and your scoop revelation that the Duke of Edinburgh is to lead the royal family’s campaign against Brexit must have taken some careful negotiating with the palace. At final there is a figure who can capture on the bigoted,narrow-minded, xenophobic shower that is Messrs Johnson, or Duncan Smith,Farage et al. What chance a televised debate in which the duke faces them off?
Mark Lyons
Ashford, Middlesex• A revival in jukeboxes, and a call for a national sleep strategy,a poet who runs courses on “Ear Training for Poets”… I give up. Which one was your April idiot narrative?
Alan Cleaver[br]Whitehaven, CumbriaContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com