Sir – Professor Mullender needs to understand that there is more than one peak that can be staked out as The Moral High Ground. Her choice (Letters, June 16) is to support “the thousands who have nowhere to live”. By contrast, “a mere handful of privileged folk” who live in Headington see virtue in the struggle to conserve a rural scene which, once despoiled, can never be recovered.
And why does she use ‘privileged’ as a term of censure? We are all privileged, in one way or another.
The students at Ruskin are privileged. Professor Mullender is privileged. Barton residents, faced with the destruction of their nature park to provide for homes (Report, June 16), ask, “Why should we have this privilege taken away and destroyed?”
Adrian Williams, Headington
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