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So, the arts establishment is up in arms because Labour's national heritage spokesman is "a self-confessed philistine". Welcome to the club! Scientists have had to put up with scientific illiterates as ministers with responsibility for science for years.
Bobbie and Alan Nichols
Abingdon, Oxfordshire
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