Your Letters
15:52 UK time, Tuesday, 3 June 2008
Monitor note: A bumper crop. And rest assured that the underling responsible for the non-appearance of yesterday's letters has been summarily told off.
Re : Only dogs and horses are allowed in the House of Parliament grounds? I could have sworn it was full of rats and cockroaches.
Stuart, Croydon
Talk of fundamentally misses the point. The problem is not public drinking but public drunkenness. Criminalizing the drinking of a bottle of wine with a picnic, or a beer with a sandwich in the park does nothing to encourage responsible drinking.
David Richerby, Leeds, UK
I work at odd times at the weekends, and often catch late-night tubes if I'm staying with friends, and welcome the alcohol ban. It only takes one drunk vomiting, wetting him/herself or being aggressively friendly to make it hell to get home. I like a drink as much as the next person but can't see any reason why a ban on drinking on public transport should be the subject of such woes. The way it's being reported I wonder if I've overlooked some human rights violation...
Fee Lock, Hastings
Why does conjure up images of someone pointing to different bottles and saying "This is WKD, this is Smirnoff Ice, this is cider ... "?
Paul Greggor, London
Having just had a fantastic evening watching Bruce Springsteen, only for it to be spoiled by the lack of decent transportation, ridiculous policing and anti-social behaviour. Why can't extra transport be laid on when concerts and football matches are held? We pay enough money for the tickets - would it be too much to ask for more transport to get us back to mainline stations so those of us living outside of London can make our last trains? 60,000 leaving the Emirates stadium - and what do the police do? Barricade the exit of one road so people are filtered into single file queues. No explanation, just obstinacy that anybody dare question it. Inside the stadium we witnessed several people escorted from the premises because of too much alcohol. Why sell it in the first place? We witnessed a man more than old enough to know better escorted out by 10 stewards, when a stern word would have worked. Nobody seems to have the common sense needed to deal with these situations any more.
Margaret Waterfield, Rochester, Kent
I hate to be a bore, but that Terry Wogan is crocheted, not knitted. Good job though.
Anna, Flitwick, UK
So maths exams have . According to the think tank involved "The content became broader... with a more restricted... syllabus." It sounds like they dropped logic completely.
QJ, Stafford, UK
Re - have I missed something in this report, that 8,000 people are banned from working with children. So TEN MILLION law abiding people have to register and pay £64? Wouldn't there be an easier solution to keep tabs on the 8,000 rather than the 10 million?
Mike, UK
"David Walker, head of fulfilment at the Times" - what a job title (). Or is it just my dirty mind?
Sturge, UK
. As opposed to brushing their hair as well, presumably?
Paul Greggor, London
Today's fix of nominative determinism: the new 100m world record holder is called .
Paul Greggor, London
And , challenger of laws against inter-racial marriage.
Laura, Cumbria
Was anybody else slightly freaked out by the ghostly greenhouse gardeners in ?
Michaela, Runcorn, UK
I did love the article on pottering. Monte is a man after my own heart. GPs please note: prescribe gardening to reduce stress.
Miranda Andrews, Amersham
The phrase "rogue chevrons" alone was worth my licence fee this year - Monitor, will you marry me?
Chandra, London
Those wouldn't be paper cuts that the Daily Mail inflicts thousand-fold would they (Paper Monitor)?
Caroline Brown, Graz, Austria
Speaking of makeovers, every time I look at the today I get this urge to scream NEWS! Don't know why.
Steven, Loughborough, UK
- hardly newsworthy, surely? I've yet to see a leopard that wasn't spotted.
Edward Green, London
I was shocked by - you wouldn't be trying to brainwash us, would you? In the top picture Samantha is shown larger than the other girls', and in the second set she is given about as much room as the other two girls put together. Looks decidedly dodgy to me...
Joe Ball, Nuneaton, England
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