Centrists and the left in a polarised world | Letters

Readers respond to recent articles by Guardian columnists Owen Jones and Simon JenkinsThe most effective deceits are those that are wrapped up in a kernel of truth and Owen Jones is certainly right that postwar consensus-based politics has been damaged by the weakening of the role of the state in a mixed economy and the acceptance of increasing inequality (Centrists attack the left, but they are the true extremists, 17 August).But that political central ground is defined by the acceptance that t