LETTER OF THE MONTH
Cold, hard facts
The excellent article by Robert Blackmore (Why We Need to Get Our Facts Straight, November) reminded me of the time I first got interested in debating and politics. In my final year in junior school in 1962 I read a history book on British heroes, and remember vividly how it painted Captain Scott as a brave man in his endeavour to reach the south pole.
It was such an engaging story. So I was shocked when, at my secondary modern school two years later, our respected history teacher gave his opinion. Scott had been ill prepared, he said, and wrong to pursue the expedition that cost
