Gardening with the red trousers brigade | Brief letters
Some 35 years ago I was a researcher at London Business School, sharing our sole computer with the renowned (or infamous) Economic Forecasting Unit, led by Terry, later Lord, Burns, before he was appropriated by Margaret Thatcher to advise the government. I well recall the announcement (though not the reason for it) by an EFU colleague: "We will never see single interest rates again." If there is one observation I have made since, it is that all worldly things are subject to sudden, radical upheaval (Interest rate 'will remain low for next 20 years', 10 August).
Philip Dowell
Bridport, Dorset
" Absolutely agree with Fr Julian Dunn (Letters, 10 August). Please bring back the Saturday poems; and reviews and articles about poetry and poets. The poetic spirit of the old Saturday Review is sorely missed.
Clare Addison
Oxford