Home Secretary David Blunkett should get a life and stop interfering with ours through his increasingly repressive diktats.

Accusations of favouritism notwithstanding, we are given to understand that his recent lost love may have been his only love to-date and we sympathise.

However, acting out the part of a spurned juvenile is not behaviour becoming a Home Secretary.

For how else are we to interpret his latest missives of Orwellian proportions that aim to compel the populace to the pathetic levels of deference demanded of an emerging police state - albeit without policemen?

Stephen Fox,

Wellington Street,

Alverthorpe,

Wakefield.

Updated: 09:51 Thursday, December 02, 2004