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Letter: The old days

Published 24 April 2013

From Ken Green

I fear that you really must rid yourself of those rose-tinted spectacles. Economic austerity doesn’t exist except perhaps in exploited communities in poorer countries (13 April, p 6).

The phenomena that you report are but reversions to a non-affluent pre-war lifestyle.

Tintagel, Cornwall, UK

Issue no. 2914 published 27 April 2013

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