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Sir: I have no idea whether or not we really came close to WW3 last month, as your correspondents Douglas Davis and James Forsyth insist (‘We came so close’, 6 October), but one line in their exciting piece brings doubts to mind. After ‘secretly’ crossing into Syria (as opposed to coming in on a guided tour, presumably) soil samples collected by ‘elite’ Israeli commandos (thank heavens they didn’t use run-of-the-mill commandos) at Tartous ‘suggested that the cargo [from North Korea] was nuclear’.
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From the economic and psychological bedlam of the global downturn has emerged a particularly dangerous false dichotomy: namely, that there is somehow a choice for ministers over the next few years between economic reconstruction and the repair of Britain’s broken society, and that the government (whether Labour or Conservative) must prioritise the former at the expense of the latter.
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Tom Boyd Cirencester, Glos.
October 16th, 2007 6:39pmRe. Allan Massie’s How Sacred is Shakespeare, the answer should surely be "very", Updating Shakespeare is butchery akin to modernising Mozart with synthesizers and steel guitars. For the past 12 years we have had open-air Shakespeare in our garden in Gloucestershire (2 plays a summer) and our audiences of between 100 and 200 are about 10 to 15% children who follow the plots, don’t fidget and laugh in all the right places. Good productions and good acting overcome the "incomprehensible" language. If people are exposed to Shakespearean English when young, the ear tunes in, and there is no need to vandalise the poetry or the richness of the vocabulary. Hands off the Bard!