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| Frank Field (Letters, 13 June) suggests that “we need to use proven 12-week apprenticeship courses for specific skills, such as bricklaying and carpentry”. As a staff member at the Manchester College of Building from 1975 until it was merged out of existence in the 90s, I had wondered at Labour’s seeming indifference to skills education and training. Now I know why. To become a skilled white-collar worker takes two years of full-time A-levels and a three-year degree, but to become a skilled building worker takes a mere 12 weeks.Neil HansonSlaithwaite, West Yorkshire | Frank Field (Letters, 13 June) suggests that “we need to use proven 12-week apprenticeship courses for specific skills, such as bricklaying and carpentry”. As a staff member at the Manchester College of Building from 1975 until it was merged out of existence in the 90s, I had wondered at Labour’s seeming indifference to skills education and training. Now I know why. To become a skilled white-collar worker takes two years of full-time A-levels and a three-year degree, but to become a skilled building worker takes a mere 12 weeks.Neil HansonSlaithwaite, West Yorkshire |
| • A complaint. I have taken the Guardian for over 40 years and have long got used to reading Michael Billington’s reviews, and, as I have aged, the obituaries, before glancing at the letters, deciphering Martin Rowson’s cartoons, and recently wincing at the anti-Corbyn headlines from your columnists – a good 10-minute task. Now I find myself having to spend at least an hour reading a good third of the paper as it desperately struggles to re-engage with so many of your correspondents who, like me, have obviously despaired at your editorial line. My wife does like Country Diary, Nature notes and the weather forecasts – oh yes, and Michele Hanson.Gordon ParsonsWinchcombe, Gloucestershire | • A complaint. I have taken the Guardian for over 40 years and have long got used to reading Michael Billington’s reviews, and, as I have aged, the obituaries, before glancing at the letters, deciphering Martin Rowson’s cartoons, and recently wincing at the anti-Corbyn headlines from your columnists – a good 10-minute task. Now I find myself having to spend at least an hour reading a good third of the paper as it desperately struggles to re-engage with so many of your correspondents who, like me, have obviously despaired at your editorial line. My wife does like Country Diary, Nature notes and the weather forecasts – oh yes, and Michele Hanson.Gordon ParsonsWinchcombe, Gloucestershire |
| • I’m one of the non-Labour voters who joined Labour in 2015 to help get Jeremy Corbyn elected as leader in order to destroy the party. Can I have my £3 back? Nigel David StockLower Harlestone, Northamptonshire | • I’m one of the non-Labour voters who joined Labour in 2015 to help get Jeremy Corbyn elected as leader in order to destroy the party. Can I have my £3 back? Nigel David StockLower Harlestone, Northamptonshire |
| • Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett (Make Trump’s visit a great joke, 7 June) is mistaken in her understanding of Trump’s narcissism. It is the attention itself that matters, not its nature. For people to turn out to mock as she suggests would only reinforce Trump’s sense of self-importance: he would simply tweet “Losers!” and go home happy. The only way to pain him is to stay home and by ignoring him treat him with the contempt he deserves.Hal DunkelmanCote, Oxfordshire | • Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett (Make Trump’s visit a great joke, 7 June) is mistaken in her understanding of Trump’s narcissism. It is the attention itself that matters, not its nature. For people to turn out to mock as she suggests would only reinforce Trump’s sense of self-importance: he would simply tweet “Losers!” and go home happy. The only way to pain him is to stay home and by ignoring him treat him with the contempt he deserves.Hal DunkelmanCote, Oxfordshire |
| • What a splendid article by Giles Fraser (I’m having heart surgery, 9 June), obviously written from his hospital bed. I wish him, and the NHS he defends so passionately and articulately, all the best for the future.Alison FlintBiddestone, Wiltshire | • What a splendid article by Giles Fraser (I’m having heart surgery, 9 June), obviously written from his hospital bed. I wish him, and the NHS he defends so passionately and articulately, all the best for the future.Alison FlintBiddestone, Wiltshire |
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