Madam, Let me come to the defence of one of your regular Gazette Letters correspondents. Whilst often baffled by his sometimes convoluted logic and occasionally having to read them more than once to get the message - I think Keith Horne's letters add an intriguing element of random factual information to your excellent pages. Long may they continue! Perhaps the reader who has become agitated would like to contribute something more erudite than just a blatant short rant.
I did find common ground with Mr Horne's letter this week as we have just returned from Prague and looked through the very window in Prague castle that the papist courtiers were thrown out of when they were 'defenestrated' in 1618. Whilst on Prague - the place is full of buskers from violin duets, jazz quartets to solo tin whistles, I guess it's a lot safer moving on a busker (letters May 13th) than arresting some real crooks and a lot easier for the statistics.
In response though to Mr Horne's science lecture at the end of the letter - I favour Newton's third law - "To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction".
Watch out you tax dodgers in Whitehall. I hope when HMRC has done its bit, we seek to remove Lordships and Knighthoods from these (previous) pillars of society. And woe betide the system if it allows tax dodgers to stay on and claim their £35,000 tax free gift and further extortionate resettlement allowance or even worse - promote them to the upper house so they can continue to sponge off the poor hard working tax payer.
Readers, you have an opportunity to have your say today - don't waste that vote!
Charles Curry, Upton Bishop