A fine phrase that sums up what rugby has lost | Brief letters

John Dawes obituary | Overseas aid budget | Ollie Robinson | Boris Johnson | DystopiaI would like to thank Richard Williams for his obituary of the great John Dawes (11 May). I have struggled for the last 20 years to explain why rugby union is no longer a game that thrills me as it did in the 1970s and 1980s. I have tied myself up in knots to define what is lacking in the modern game. Then, Williams sums it up in a phrase of efficient elegance worthy of Dawes: “a time when rugby was a game