West Sussex County Council's political elite see fit to support the 50th anniversary of the writer and poet who loved the South Downs, Hilaire Belloc, but do not see fit to support the 50th anniversary of the writer and philosopher who also loved the South Downs, Cyril Joad.
Why? As Belloc said: "When I am dead I hope it may be said His sins were scarlet But his books were read."
Between them, Belloc and Joad published 220 well-read books. We need them well-remembered in West Sussex - blue plaques for both, perhaps?
I wonder how they would have reacted to the council's stance on National Park status for the Downs?
-Richard W Symonds, The Joad Society, Ifield, Crawley
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