30 OCTOBER 1959, Page 27

HYPOCRISY?

SIR,—A paragraph by John Gordon in the Sunday Express on the Consett boy who hanged himself on remand begins: 'Aren't we a rather hypocritical lot?' 1 wonder if others than myself found this hypocritical to the point of nausea when one con- siders that Mr. Gordon's column has been one of the main factors in creating a climate of opinion in which such a thing as the Consett suicide could occur.—Yours faithfully,