Liverish
Sir: Why has your television critic — once a life-enhancing humorist — become so disagreeable? His articles are reminiscent not of sparkling Golden Balls but rather of the black balloons of Comrade Livingstone. The Royal Wedding, for example, led him to disinter poor Lord Mountbatten in order to call him a 'disastrous popinjay' while the 'reunification' of the bride's father with his first wife prompted him to call the marriage service in St Paul's a great humbug. Week after week he sneers and sniffs and scorns and scoffs. Cheerfulness never breaks in.
There was once a schoolmistress who said that when one of the children became particularly tiresome she gave him or her a liver pill; but when they all became tiresome she took one herself. What about half a grain of calomel for Mr Ingrams?
Patrick Davis 32 Fisher Street, Sandwich, Kent
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