First laureate for storytelling announced

poll tax remembered - in the Guardian letters page 15 April:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/apr/15/past-margaretthatcher

Twenty years ago, the biggest protest to inflame Scotland, which would also engulf London's Trafalgar Square with around 200,000 people, was the widespread protest against the poll tax. The protesters' success is remembered at Glasgow's People's Palace this Saturday (18 April) by musicians, writers and storytellers. Fortunately, no one died back then, but a prime minister's career did come to an unexpected end soon after.

Strange then that Germaine Greer (The making of Maggie, Review, 11 April) and others seem to overlook this hugely significant moment of British history.

There was, as Greer says, "weakness and indecisiveness of the opposition", but the thousands who didn't pay a penny and protested against the poll tax were sure of what was right and fair, and this is remembered in Glasgow on Saturday (see Glasgow museums).
Adrian Johnson
Smethwick, West Midlands