Bloody brilliant
Sir: Toby Young (‘Status Anxiety’, 29 November) tells of his daughter’s present to him of a swear box. She has set an important precedent that deserves maximum support. Let there be such boxes in school classrooms and their considerable contents serve to foster educational projects. Police should be armed with them and empowered to extract on-thespot fines from football spectators who give voice to foul language and any team player who is sent off for abusing the referee. Let the BBC dock the salaries of broadcasters who show Ross-like tendencies, while a box will rapidly fill with contributions from a certain chef. Swear boxes will serve to both diminish our deteriorating vocabulary and to enrich the Treasury and, maybe, my inadequate pension.
Thank you, Sasha.
Eric Dehn
Bristol
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