Letters: In brief
Your support helps us to tell the story
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.
At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.
The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls. We believe quality journalism should be available to everyone, paid for by those who can afford it.
Your support makes all the difference.Sir: How demeaning was Deborah Ross's interview with Fay Weldon! She presented this fascinating writer as frivolous, inconsistent and silly. I assume that Ross thought she might make journalistic capital out of the contrast between this image of unmitigated hedonism, and the feminist movement with which Fay Weldon has been associated.
Fay Weldon has made it clear that she is interested in people, not in pose. Her writing is political in that it presents people in situations, in relationships in social climate. It is endearing in its sympathy for vulnerability, savage in its undermining of pretention. The effect of Deborah Ross's report was to reveal her own triviality.
JUDY SPROXTON,
Top Farm House
Temple Grafton, Alcester
Sir, "I wanted clothes that I would wear but shrunk to size" (Fashion, 24 June). The incredibility of this concept is only weighed by the belief that "You either had Gap ... or Paul Smith". What world are these women living in? - one of "style over content" if the admissions of Sarah Hiscox are to be believed. In the fashion war zone of the teenage years, this indoctrination that image is everything will manifest itself in demands for obscenely expensive clothes. Children learn by example; elitist and capitalistic ideals imbued in children will be perpetuated in adulthood by the divisive belief in a culture of "haves and have-nots" so endemic in 20th century Western society.
PAULINE STILGES
Letchworth, Hertfordshire
Join our commenting forum
Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies
Comments