Once again in The Press (April 24), Bill Hearld, perhaps running out of things to fill his column with, canters off on that toothless old nag "political corrrectness", which he suggests is "our other favourite obsession today".

Well, who indeed is obsessed with this chimera? There is something terribly wearisome about the procession of comfortably-off middle aged white men prepared to pose in public as victims of the monstrous conspiracy of PC, and to be paid for it by newspapers willing to publish this nonsense.

These men don't seem to me to be in the least intimidated at the prospect of anyone crying "shame". Just consider Richard Littlejohn of The Sun and Daily Mail fame, or Mr Hearld himself.

Out there in the real world there actually are people oppressed, persecuted or just denied jobs, housing or respect on account of their race, their class, their sex or other factors.

Why should he feel offended when this is pointed out? Isn't this something to make a fuss about?

Mr Hearld may feel hard done by if other people are less amused than he is by the prejudices he grew up to see as "normal", but as one relatively well-paid middle-aged bald white man to another, I say: how dare you slip in the ludicrous joke about "baldism" to equate your sensitivity about hair loss to the experiences of people who really are victimised.

Chris Walker-Lyne, Millfield Road, York.