5 DECEMBER 1970, Page 21

Bad taste

Sir: Roger Barnard in his article `Bad taste' (7 November) uses such difficult words in such dreadfully long sentences that I daresay I am mistaken in thinking he wants us to return to the pre-reform and pre-police days of the early nine- teenth century. I do hope I am wrong.

- Katharine Kenyon

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