Attlee, Labour and the battle against austerity | Letters

Austerity has fed rapacious cost-cutting, with devastating consequencesHow apt that a biography of Attlee won the Orwell prize for political writing as art (Tribute to NHS founder Clement Attlee wins Orwell prize, 16 June). Such reminders of Labour’s totemic achievements are essential in challenging Tory doublethink. Indeed even your leader this week (May’s coalition of chaos stumbles through another day, 14 June) suggested that “in rhetorical terms, austerity has been over for