Zoe Williams is right to highlight the prohibitively high price of a ticket to Glastonbury festival, as well as the wider costs involved in getting there (BuzzBallz, brat tenacity and hangover face: 25 things I learned about the world at Glastonbury 2025, 29 June). “Is it unreasonable to mourn a time when more young people could afford to come?” she asks. Having attended as a 16-year-old, with an £80 ticket bought with money from my part-time job, I sympathise with young people who have been priced out. But it’s not just young people – attending a festival has become another part of the social and cultural life of the country from which working people are increasingly being cut off. Sadly, this fundamentally changes the nature of a festival like Glastonbury, which for so long represented and celebrated the best of inclusivity, diversity and creativity in the UK.
Huw Roberts
Liverpool
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