Brief letters: 14-year-old Guardian readers | Cerne Giant | ‘Painting is dead’ | Peter Mandelson | Boris Johnson
It’s gratifying that the Guardian still publishes. After the Manchester Guardian printed mine in 1955, a teacher commented sardonically on my poor handwriting in a report: “Does he type his letters to the press?” Seven years later I was taken on as a graduate trainee reporter in Manchester, starting a decade on the paper. You may not have seen the last of Joseph Walker.
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