No, Damian Lewis, we don’t all swing, swing together

Damian Lewis speaks at the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Acland Burghley school in Camden, London, on 27 January. His alma mater’s song might make a suitable national anthem, reckons Richard Griffith. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA

It’s good of Damian Lewis to give his time freely and he is right that Acland Burghley comprehensive’s 50th anniversary celebrations should include “celebrating our community” (Report, 28 January). But it is he that misses the point. No matter how much the “school allowed boys and girls to “think for themselves”, as long as private education, epitomised by Eton, with its links to power and position in our society, can be bought by wealth, the ambition of those children’s thoughts would be limited.
David Murray
Wallington, Surrey

• If you want a rousing, rollicking good sing for the national anthem (Letters, 28 January), why not the Eton Boating Song? It would represent the dominant culture of the times, wouldn’t it?
Richard Griffiths
Syderstone, Norfolk

• THANKS FOR THE CAPITALS DERRICK CAMERON, I’M A BIT HARD OF HEARING (Letters, 28 January).
Emyr Owen
Llanfairfechan, Conwy

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