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Vance Ewok
Lookalike
Sir,
Myself and my partner were trying for the life of us to remember who this little Ewok reminded us of. And then we remembered where we’d seen those furry little cheeks before.
ANNE-MARIE WEEDEN.
Turner blind eye
Sir,
Your prophetic announcement of the Israeli government’s weight-loss solution, StarvationTM (jokes, p30, Eye 1649) is endorsed and supported by Jonathan Turner KC, of UK Lawyers for Israel, who writes, in a friendly letter to the board of the Co-op, that the Israeli action in Gaza may actually be improving life expectancy by reducing levels of obesity. One wonders whether the board of the Co-op takes heed in its deliberation of motion 13 at the AGM on 17 May
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calling for the Co-op to cease trading with Israel, given this boon to the health of the Palestinians living in Gaza of living under permanent bombardment and starvation.
TONY O’BRIEN, Bromley.
l The motion on 17 May was carried. For: 72.80% Against: 27.20%. Ed.
Cancel culture
Sir,
I was a regular subscriber in London from the mid-1980s and maintained my subscription when I moved to the US in 1990. It lapsed a few short years ago and I recently resumed it. However, apparently TDS [Trump derangement syndrome] is alive and well in Gnomeland.
Plenty of material I grant you but like most of the mainstream media, there is no semblance of balance. Opening up Eye 1648 today confirms that with the front cover. How much material from the UK is sadly being overlooked in pursuit of this derangement – Starmer, Khan et al? Do better or I will cancel again.
PETER VEXTER.
Mayor cull? Pah!
Sir,
OMG, I can’t believe I’ve just read a copy of your esteemed magazine (Eye 1649) from cover to cover and there hasn’t been a single mention of your favourite mayor, Lord Ben Houchen. Does this mean that I may have to reconsider my decision to cancel my subscription?
GRAHAM DAVIES, Wales.
Doing our homework
Sir,
I thank you on behalf of the thousands of teaching and support staff across the country for your ongoing reporting of the Multi-Academy Trust (MAT) scandals (Eyes passim). You rightly highlight some of the more extreme cases but I wanted to relate a small example of the sort of practice that fosters the growing weary anger with the policy among “chalk face” staff.
My establishment recently became an academy and an MAT was duly formed. Numerous expensive management roles across the MAT, which we have managed perfectly well without for decades, inevitably materialised. This is all, of course, against a backdrop of increased workload and class sizes, reduced staffing and budget pressures.