Our second-rate schools

Peter Hitchens extols the virtue of grammar schools. Spare a thought for the thousands of children who were assigned a second-rate education in an underfunded secondary school with poor teachers due to a postcode lottery.

John Graham, Ollerton, Nottinghamshire

How I agree with Peter about Britain being unable to produce competent people. As a retired teacher, I found myself vilified on social media – for being shocked at someone incorrectly putting

Mary, Queen of Scots in the Tudor rather than the Stuart dynasty.

Jeannette Meyers, Ashford, Kent