Michael Parkinson was on the right side of history | Brief letters

Celebrating Parkinson | Technology predictions | Benefits or bank holiday? | Dead nice delicacies | A-level jumpingMichael Parkinson will be remembered for many things (Obituary, 17 August), but being one of the founding signatories of the Anti-Nazi League in the late 1970s reminds us that he stood on the right side of history. Keith FlettTottenham, London• Like Roald Dahl (Letters, 13 August), EM Forster predicted the rise of AI and technology in his 1909 short story The Machine Stops, whi