{"id":1819,"date":"2021-06-10T18:54:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T16:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/10\/the-touch-of-a-button-that-broke-the-internet-brief-letters\/"},"modified":"2021-06-10T18:54:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T16:54:56","slug":"the-touch-of-a-button-that-broke-the-internet-brief-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/10\/the-touch-of-a-button-that-broke-the-internet-brief-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"The touch of a button that broke the internet | Brief letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cricket privilege | The Queen at Oxford | Nightingale torment | Breaking the internet<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s good to see the England team wearing anti-discrimination T-shirts (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/blog\/2021\/jun\/09\/ollie-robinson-twitter-racism-storm-obscures-ecbs-decades-of-inaction\" title=\"\">Ollie Robinson Twitter racism storm obscures ECB\u2019s decades of inaction<\/a>, 9 June), perhaps the England and Wales Cricket Board should be wondering why the whole team is made up of white players. There are thousands of black and Asian cricketers in the UK; what stops them making it into the national team? Perhaps not enough of them attend the private schools where many of the players of the last few years have been educated. Privilege wins out again.<br \/><strong>Andrew Walker<\/strong><br \/><em>Bradford<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 I am disappointed that Oxford students wanted to remove the Queen\u2019s portrait (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2021\/jun\/09\/president-of-oxford-college-defends-students-right-to-remove-photo-of-queen\" title=\"\">Report<\/a>, 9 June) because it represents colonial history, rather than because it represents inherited privilege. Too close to home for some students?<br \/><strong>Bob Browning<\/strong><br \/><em>London<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/jun\/10\/the-touch-of-a-button-that-broke-the-internet\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c85a85aea9e836bc05202f522adbac41cdcbd0f9\/0_220_3365_2019\/master\/3365.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=237d0880daf90dbb8339fc20279f421e\" title=\"The touch of a button that broke the internet | Brief letters\" \/>Cricket privilege | The Queen at Oxford | Nightingale torment | Breaking the internet<br \/>\nWhile it\u2019s good to see the England team wearing anti-discrimination T-shirts (Ollie Robinson Twitter racism storm obscures ECB\u2019s decades of inaction, 9 June), perhaps the England and Wales Cricket Board should be wondering why the whole team is made up of white players. There are thousands of black and Asian cricketers in the UK; what stops them making it into the national team? Perhaps not enough of them attend the private schools where many of the players of the last few years have been educated. Privilege wins out again.Andrew WalkerBradford<br \/>\n\u2022 I am disappointed that Oxford students wanted to remove the Queen\u2019s portrait (Report, 9 June) because it represents colonial history, rather than because it represents inherited privilege. Too close to home for some students?Bob BrowningLondon Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cricket privilege | The Queen at Oxford | Nightingale torment | Breaking the internet While it\u2019s good to see the England team wearing anti-discrimination T-shirts (Ollie Robinson Twitter racism storm obscures ECB\u2019s decades of inaction, 9 June), perhaps the England and Wales Cricket Board should be wondering why the whole team is made up of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/10\/the-touch-of-a-button-that-broke-the-internet-brief-letters\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The touch of a button that broke the internet | Brief letters<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}