Your Letters

15:05 UK time, Monday, 20 August 2007

Regarding Jeremy Vine's piece. I think people are more likely to step in and help if they feel they are in the majority. why do we need this sign of approval, when everyone knows the thugs actions are wrong. We all need to take a stand, and backup others who are brave enough to to challenge a thug. The more we let bad behaviour go the more it becomes the norm and so escalates.
Adam, Seaview

So a trillion pounds of debt doesn't matter? Tell that to my bank (or, failing to reach them, their call centre).
Ed, Clacton, Clacton, UK

"It may not be everyone's cup of tea". As a statement about a type of coffee I would have thought that it would have been no-one's.
Rebecca, London

In your State Of Play: Winning Friends article, the writer comments "I know it's accurate, because I do it." Given that I disagree with almost every part of that article, am I allowed to use that argument too, or is that just a tad too schoolyard for the Beeb's tastes?
Steven, Glasgow

Why do you bother with stories about Pete Doherty? Nobody really cares what he's been arrested for this time.
Michael Morton, Leeds

Not that I care much for Xbox but in the article about Microsoft cutting the prices in Europe it then says "So far Microsoft has not confirmed how prices will change in the UK market." Its been a while since i did Geography but are we not still part of Europe?
Nikki, Hertford

According to MM, this time last week we didn't know that "left-handed people are called sinistral". I'm sorry: I did know that and I suspect many other readers did too. It's not our fault if MM didn't do Latin at school...
Nigel Molesworth, St Custards

Regarding headline, it seems the BBC is aiming at the younger generation again: Plane gutted at Japanese airport - I would be equally disapointed if I had gone up in flames as well.
Russell Jacques, Liverpool