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This attack on libraries is a return to a time when only the elite could afford quiet For me and for many a library has been, to use the phrase of surely one of the greatest Conservative thinkers, TS Eliot, a "still point in the turning world." And now Andy Burnham wants to invade them with all the twittering of the world outside, in spite of the protestations of what are now termed "traditionalists". I'm sorry, but if valuing the deep thought that is done best in silence, and undisturbed absorption in a subject is traditionalist, and if proper learning and study is traditional - whether it be of bee-keeping, cooking or linear B - then I am unapologetically a traditionalist. Moreover, I am a traditionalist in order to safeguard the progression of our future. The culture secretary's suggestion is far more damaging than merely... [read full story]
