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Matthew Kelly, left, and George Costigan in a 2003 production of John Steinbeck s Of Mice and Men at the King s Theatre, Edinburgh. Should the novel still be part of the school curriculum? ON the topic of dubious books disappearing from the school curriculum (“Goodbye y’all: School calls time on ‘dated’ Mockingbird and Mice”, and “Blyton racism row rages on”, The Herald, July 5) who wrote the following, and of whom? He impressed me greatly – the sense he gave one of huge but crippled power, the reedy voice and the banal words in which he tried to express ideas which represented for him a whole world of incoherent poetry. I did not know him well enough to like or dislike him, but I felt him as one feels the imminence of a thunderstorm. But I did not realise the greatness of his personality until I had been some time in the country. Then I felt that in all sorts of people – simple farmers and transport riders, commonplace business men, Jewish financier ....
26 February 2021 • 12:01am A teacher gives a creative writing class at Roath Park primary school in Cardiff, Wales Credit: Matthew Horwood /Getty SIR – Mandatory wearing of masks after the end of lockdown must be rejected. Face masks are vile, dehumanising devices. Nothing better exemplifies a continued divergence from “normality”. When the majority of the population has been vaccinated, including all the high risk groups, masks should no longer be compulsory. John Wainwright
SIR – There should be clarity about the law, which must be obeyed, and what is guidance, which we may follow at our discretion (“Schools told they cannot force pupils to wear masks,” report, February 25). Currently even policemen are confused. ....