Little Amal is a reminder of how vital art is | Letters

Readers respond to a Guardian editorial on the peripatetic puppet – and the slow commodification of culture in EnglandYour excellent leader (The Guardian view on Little Amal: telling the unpalatable truth, 20 October) is a timely reminder of the proper value of art in an era when irony seems to have expired with the appointment of culture secretaries such as Oliver Dowden and Nadine Dorries. In England, this apparent decline in how we see our culture has been accompanied by the slow erosio