Excellence isn’t elitist

ICOULDN’T agree more with Agromenes’s piece, Inclusion at the expense of excellence (August 24). General dumbing down is so palpable that I buy fewer and fewer American magazines, but, thankfully, the saving grace is British ones—and COUNTRY LIFE is my favourite. Whether living in the countryside or in town, we need the excellences and culture that have been mistakenly labelled as ‘elitism’ in recent years—thank you for championing our shared cultural excellences. Jessica Wong, North Carolina, USA