POOR Chris Titley. He sounds like a lad at one of the minor public schools, who has been rejected by his family, never had any friends and wants to make the world suffer for his inadequacies. (It's all there is his picture, with the big, old-fashioned, floppy collar, no doubt with a flowery girl's neckerchief hanging down).

Has he got nothing better to do than attack a woman who is in no position to answer back ("Off with their privileges", June 4)? Surely the actions of a coward.

How would young Titley like a totally spurious and poorly-imagined attack on his own family? May I have the freedom of your columns to describe his mother's occupation and his father's habits?

I must admit, I see him as a have-not surrounded by empty beer cans and probably quite a few dirty needles.

But there, that's what I think. I'm only a pensioner, not an unimaginative columnist with a grudge against the world.

Tony Pook,

Lower Friargate, York.

Updated: 12:51 Saturday, June 07, 2003