LETTERS
Jenkins's brown cap From The Rt Hon. the Lord Chalfont Sir: I am surprised that Lord Jenkins, in his interview with Boris Johnson (`Fwankly dis- appointed', 24 June), should have suggest- ed that he received his early education at 'a most awful school . . . with very little good teaching'.
In the Eastern Valley of Monmouthsire in the 1930s, when Roy and I were maturing in neighbouring vineyards, ready to become the P6trus and Fleur de Gray respectively of the 1960s, Abersychan Grammar School was a very reputable establishment. It was not, of course, as intellectually distinguished as my own school, West Monmouth, five miles down the road; and we used to beat them regularly at rugby and cricket. Also, they wore brown caps.
But Abersychan can't really have been so awful if it produced a highly literate states- man who became chancellor of the exche- quer, president of the European Commis- sion and chancellor of Oxford University. Oh, yes, and a member of six London clubs — none of them as intellectually distin- guished as the Garrick, and only one which could fairly be described as awful.
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