10 NOVEMBER 1984, Page 22

Men of the Sixties

Sir: It is boring to read Colin Welch launch into an attack on the Sixties (Centrepiece, 20 October), because it has been done before. It is odd that he should consider it a crime for Mr Kinnock to have been 20 in 1962 and a fan of Buddy Holly. And it is ironic that he should overlook one of the achievements of the Sixties, namely its university teaching.

It was during the Sixties that much of the intellectual groundwork and propaganda behind the present Tory revival was laid, namely by Maurice Cowling and Edward Norman at Cambridge University. They may not endorse all of Mrs Thatcher's policies but without them, neither she nor Colin Welch would be where they are now. Martin Roberts

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