Not the final whistle
Sir: As one who earns a crust from practis- ing the art of generalisation on a daily basis, I take my hat off to Digby Anderson for his efforts last week in constructing an entertaining and completely fact-free piece of tosh (They don't whistle while they work', 26 July).
I don't know where Digby did his research on the working classes, but had he been keeping the same company as me recently he would have seen that they are very much alive, as sexist as ever, smoking and drinking themselves to death as always and, yes, whistling occasionally.
His vision of the embourgeoisement of the working class would appear to be based on precisely the sort of romanticism which he accuses us middle-class lefties of displaying.
David Felton
Independent, 1 Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14
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