Letter: In Brief

Sir: You demean Gerard Winstanley, of the Diggers, by saying that he wanted access to the land for the people. He wanted the land for the people. He argued that, having cut off the head of the successor of the Norman Bastard, William the Conqueror, we, the people of England, were free to take our land and to make of it a common treasury for everyone to use, so that no one need go hungry or cold again. Why, 350 years on, are we waiting?

RICHARD FROST

Appleby,

Cumbria