4 FEBRUARY 2006, Page 82

Band of brothers

From Christopher Arthur Sir: Reading Leo McKinstry’s very sensible piece about Ruth Kelly (‘Hate, hypocrisy and hysteria’, 21 January) and the pae dophile witch-hunt, I could not help casting my mind back to my days in a public school back in the Fifties. Some of my most inspiring teachers were paederasts or what today are called paedophiles. We simply took them for what they were and did not get worked up about it.

Christopher Arthur Durham