Accessibility Tools

  • Content scaling 100%
  • Font size 100%
  • Line height 100%
  • Letter spacing 100%
Skip to main content
Absolutely Revolting
Letters – December 2024
Free Article: No
Contents Category: Letters
Custom Article Title: Letters – December 2024
Review Article: No
Show Author Link: Yes
Show Byline: Yes
Article Title: Letters – December 2024
Online Only: No
Custom Highlight Text:

Dear Editor,

In her review of Gary Browning’s Iris Murdoch and the Political (ABR, November 2024) Gillian Dooley notes, ‘After graduating from Oxford she worked in the Civil Service’, then, moves on without further ado to Murdoch’s postwar work with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Dooley doesn’t mention the evidence that has emerged over the years – from Murdoch’s friends John Jones and Phillipa Foot – that she was still an active member of the Communist Party during World War II and passed on documents from government offices to the Communist Party.
Related Article Image (300px * 400px):
Featured Image (400px * 250px):
Display Review Rating: No

Kaddish

Dear Editor,

What a beautifully written article by Peter Tregear about the MSO’s Kaddish: A Holocaust Memorial Concert (ABR Arts). It is honest and unswerving in its depiction across the whole musical ‘adventure’. The reference to current international events prompts an appropriate question, to be asked by future generations.

Roger Howell

Corporate cancel culture

Dear Editor,

Apropos of Josh Bornstein’s article ‘On Corporate Cancel Culture’ (ABR, November 2024), it is worth reflecting that, beyond social media, ordinary citizens and public figures have few options to get into trouble in this way. Newspapers and (most) journals are quite risk-averse when it comes to publishing even mildly provocative comment. (I have had occasion to be thankful that this is the case.) The sooner legitimate figures and institutions abandon social media as a wasteland of unmoderated comment, akin to a bar or locker room, the sooner its credibility will wane.

Patrick Hockey

 

Jack Hibberd

Dear Editor,

I think that John Timlin, in his obituary for Jack Hibberd (ABR, November 2024), should have mentioned the close relationship between Hibberd and David Kendall. I believe it was Kendall who worried Jack into writing. If anyone chooses to research this matter, the results would show that their Melbourne University relationship inflected what was then Australian new theatre more than Monash and the Melbourne State College ever did.

Peter King

Comments powered by CComment