Thirsty for peace?

Art is part of our world and has been since time immemorial, with the 20,000-year-old Lascaux cave paintings and the Indigenous Art in Australia. It is something that is part of our souls, it is not something to be destroyed in protest. The works of art, great and small, must be protected but allowing only baby formula, expressed milk and prescription medicine, as the National Gallery in London seems an odd shield against protesters.

A better approach would be to work on the causes of the dissatisfaction but how can this be done under attack. Maybe this is just a metaphor for so many problems in our world as so clearly shown in the Middle East. Listening and talking are easy but destruction is more common. We need to change our approaches.

Dennis Fitzgerald,

Melbourne, Australia