Linda Grant’s view of the British left in the 1970s (Even love was leftwing in the 1970s, Opinion, 19 September) is right that there was sex and beer (commensurate, as she notes, with afternoon and 10.30pm closing hours). There were also illegal drugs, which were mostly inhaled or sometimes eaten in cakes. Above all though, there were meetings. It will no doubt have been during this period that Jeremy Corbyn developed an ability, as did many of us, to stay awake and survive in interminable gatherings.
It will have done him good service since, and those of us who remain materialists will also note that endless meetings and workshops were the left’s gift to the world. Now men and women in suits do it too.
Keith Flett
London
