In his column in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph, Tim Blair warns that children today would get a life lesson on the perils of communism if arch-socialist octogenarian Bernie Sanders was elected US president in 2020 (The kids need Bernie, 10/2). They would certainly vote for him to get all the “free” stuff. Coincidentally, in the same edition, Troy Lennon has delivered one of his best historical biographies on Journalist Gareth Jones exposing the secretive, dishonest behaviour of the Soviets during the man-made famine in Ukraine in the 1935. (Mr Jones exposes Soviet famine shame, History, 10/2). Jones’ reports of the starved dead littering Soviet streets shocked the world. Hopefully, our precious young can watch the new movie of Jones’ life (Mr Jones) and avoid the real-life experience. The alternative of life imitating art would be horrific for humanity. Alan Sexton, North Parramatta 11Feb2020.