We need a new language to fight Tory dogma | Letters

I agree with Owen Jones about hope (A war of the generations is not a solution – hope is, 8 March): something it seems most journalists, the nature of whose trade tends to make them cynical, find hard to deal with. But I have a big problem with his focus on the word that represents the identity he has grown up with: the left. It is such a divisive way of talking about politics, where people are asked to identify with right or left or drift around in a vague “centre”. Far more i