Your Letters
11:55 UK time, Tuesday, 11 October 2011
I'm confused. Angela Dawes is Dave Dawes' 43-year-old wife but they are planning to get married next year. I suppose they might as well spend the money on something.
Paul, Ipswich
Will Self says that "the great British public require convicted prisoners to be scapegoats for all that is wrong with society". But isn't that the point? What better measure is there of a society than the extent and severity of the crimes committed? No more important, perhaps, than the healthcare or education system (which itself is inexorably linked to crime), but a better measure, surely?
Luke L, London, UK
Re the Yeo Valley boyband. Isn't it rather reminiscent of the Friday Night Armistice's British beef boyband from the 1990s called Topside?
Michael Hall, Croydon, UK
I'm glad someone has decided to write this article, as anything which raises awareness of these conditions is a step in the right direction. Interestingly, I know people who suffer from these conditions who jokingly "misuse" the terms themselves, sometimes about others. If we are always on our guard when it comes to language, then we become paralysed and unable to express ourselves. British comedians in particular would also struggle. However, anything which constitutes the use of the term in an aggressive or passive aggressive fashion is bullying and wholly inappropriate.
Alanna Clegg
Dear Mark (Monday's Letters), it's not unreasonable to think that after 26 years of happy marriage our chances of divorce are zero. But, rather unreasonably, I find that I have the hots for a 19-year-old bingo caller from Southend-on-Sea. 'll be seeing a solicitor in the morning, then I'm getting a tattoo and Oliver is going to whisk me off to Margate on the back of his brother's moped.
Mrs Esdale, Bridge
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