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| Polly Toynbee's rant about the Queen and the jubilee celebrations (The monarchy: A vapid family, 1 June) was the most spiteful, pathetic piece of journalism I have had the misfortune to read. Toynbee is entitled to question the value of a monarchy but to be quite so hateful towards the Queen and her family reveals a smallness and narrowness of mind. Toynbee also makes a vapid argument that the jubilee celebrations are not indicative of England today when they are precisely indicative of our embrace of history and tradition. I'm not sure where Toynbee lives but I suspect she surrounds herself with similar sneering, fun-hating people and rarely steps out to see what is truly felt in the villages and towns of England. David Murray Publisher, The Business Magazine | Polly Toynbee's rant about the Queen and the jubilee celebrations (The monarchy: A vapid family, 1 June) was the most spiteful, pathetic piece of journalism I have had the misfortune to read. Toynbee is entitled to question the value of a monarchy but to be quite so hateful towards the Queen and her family reveals a smallness and narrowness of mind. Toynbee also makes a vapid argument that the jubilee celebrations are not indicative of England today when they are precisely indicative of our embrace of history and tradition. I'm not sure where Toynbee lives but I suspect she surrounds herself with similar sneering, fun-hating people and rarely steps out to see what is truly felt in the villages and towns of England. David Murray Publisher, The Business Magazine |
| • Here I was walking around thinking I am surely going mad, listening to people I work with, in a community school in inner London, talking about their plans to celebrate the jubilee. Walking into supermarkets drowned in union flags, with pictures of the Queen everywhere. Why? What's to celebrate? Polly Toynbee puts every argument that I have been raging about to anyone that will listen into a perfect article. With the financial crisis in the UK, watching my friends lose their jobs, attacks on our working rights, public school boys running the show, arts courses and funding being slashed, imagination and creativity being stubbed out, the privileged flying high, privatisation slashing our public services, why would we stand waving a flag and to what? Thank you Polly, I don't know what I'd do without you. Christine Marshall London | • Here I was walking around thinking I am surely going mad, listening to people I work with, in a community school in inner London, talking about their plans to celebrate the jubilee. Walking into supermarkets drowned in union flags, with pictures of the Queen everywhere. Why? What's to celebrate? Polly Toynbee puts every argument that I have been raging about to anyone that will listen into a perfect article. With the financial crisis in the UK, watching my friends lose their jobs, attacks on our working rights, public school boys running the show, arts courses and funding being slashed, imagination and creativity being stubbed out, the privileged flying high, privatisation slashing our public services, why would we stand waving a flag and to what? Thank you Polly, I don't know what I'd do without you. Christine Marshall London |
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