Developing logical minds

IT would be a wonderful improvement to the British education system, and so to every aspect of UK life, if school teenagers could attend lessons in formal logic, with synergetic, time-controlled discussion, using contemporary events as study material.

The Tory Government has cut international aid, and its supporters have justified this by declaring that some of that money had been diverted to corrupt foreign politicians.

Teenagers should be taught that such allegations are a powerful reason to cease giving money to villains.

It is no reason on Earth to cease combating child polio in developing countries.

Logic has a place in this universe, from which developing minds can benefit, to determine whether they agree with such actions or not.

Some well-meaning people urge that Britain should continue international aid in order to achieve ‘soft power,’ from the respect which other nations would have for the UK. That is a sensible point, but logic dictates that we should do these honourable actions because these are our profound beliefs.

It has been alleged that the British public do not favour international aid.

That is a good reason for political parties to teach all voters, and their children, moral standards to live by.

C N WESTERMAN

Poem

Grandad lying on his bed. The sad farewells have all been said. Too weak to furn his thoughts to speech before his final exit, With fleeting smile he forms the words. I didn’t vote for Brexit.