Kenneth Wood
Exeter, Devon
SIR – I have resigned from my job twice in my life. Neither occasion was because I took responsibility for something that went wrong. My total severance package for each resignation was nothing. How can George Entwistle be in a job for 54 days, throw in the towel, and walk away with so much?
Peter Walton
Buckingham
SIR – How sad to see such a good and honourable man as George Entwistle fall on his sword. I hope that such principles do not carry on to our politicians and civil servants. If everyone who made errors resigned, instead of learning lessons and retraining, we would be left with a decimated Parliament and Civil Service.
Howard Stevens
Stockton-on-Tees, Co Durham
SIR – Was Mr Entwistle the only employee of the BBC who didn't read the Guardian over his breakfast?
Peter Butt
Sway, Hampshire
SIR – When concerns about Jimmy Savile first became serious, Lord Patten, the chairman of the BBC Trust, was conspicuous by his absence. Initially he even seemed to play down the matter.
After a while he began to take a more robust stance, but in the light of his granting the director-general a year's salary following his resignation after only eight weeks in post, his judgment looks flawed and his position untenable.
Hilda Gaddum
Macclesfield, Cheshire
SIR – We should not lose sight of the fact that George Entwistle was brought down – on air – by one of its own presenters.
Applying the highest standards of impartiality, John Humphrys, the Today programme presenter, exposed the incompetence of his own boss. I find it hard to imagine that happening in any other organisation. Despite its failings, there is much to be proud of in the BBC.
Keith Valentine
Tunbridge Wells, Kent
SIR – Is the BBC watched? In my home, not a lot. BBC news is slow and parochial. Sometimes 30 minutes go by without mention of anything outside Britain.
As far as drama is concerned the two big successes of recent months have been Downton Abbey and Homeland – neither from the BBC. I want the BBC to survive and flourish, but its reputation now relies on past accomplishments.
Imre Lake
London NW1
SIR – Conservative MP for Bath, commissioner to the EU, governor and commander-in-chief of Hong Kong and now chairman of the BBC Trust.
Please let's not give Lord Patten of Barnes another job.
Sir Michael Ferguson Davie Bt
Evercreech, Somerset
SIR – Will the BBC now be tempted to make a drama out of this crisis?
Paul Barrow
New Barnet, Hertfordshire
Islam and head scarfs
SIR – Judith Woods (Comment, November 10) describes how Malala Yousafzai, the brave schoolgirl who was shot by the Taliban, dutifully covers her head as befits a devout Muslim. However, there are devout Muslim women who practise their faith without a head covering.
We know now that not only is this primarily a cultural matter, but it is also a key means of a patriarchal theocracy imposing stringent rules to deprive women of equal rights. This is at the heart of the education issue.
As long as conservative Islam parades its autocratic treatment of women as a fait accompli, many will believe that theirs is the only interpretation of Islam.
Let's support Malala because our culture promotes genuine gender equality – even if we haven't completely achieved it.
A P Skennerton
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
First Trust property
SIR – The first land donated to the National Trust on its formation in 1895 consisted of a few acres of Cardiganshire coast at Dinas Oleu (Letters, November 9). The first house purchased was the 14th-century Alfriston Clergy House in East Sussex in 1896, which also inspired the trust's oak leaf motif.
Barrington Court was only acquired 11 years later, and its restoration so severely drained the trust's financial resources that no further property purchases were made until the Thirties.
Throughout the first 45 years of its existence, the Trust relied on sizeable donations to generate income and membership. This included 4,000 acres in the Lake District from Beatrix Potter in 1929, the West Wycombe estate village in Buckinghamshire from the Royal Society of Arts in 1934, and Quarry Bank textile mill in 1939 from Alexander Carlton Greg.
Philip Duly
Haslemere, Surrey
Christmas comes early
SIR – I received my first Christmas card on Thursday November 8, which was posted in Britain. Is this a record?
Margaret Messervy
Montacute, Somerset
SIR – I was appalled to see in an advertisement that a retailer has decided that what used to be Christmas should now be called "the gifting season".
Jackie Elliot Paice
London SW6
Cyclists must think
SIR – I feel great sympathy for Bradley Wiggins and hope that he recovers after his road accident (report, November 8).
There is, however, a wider issue with some cyclists – particularly younger ones. Many of them ignore basic rules of the road. They ride two abreast on busy roads; they ride at night without lights; they ride the wrong way on one-way streets; they ignore traffic lights; they don't indicate when turning left or right and they weave precariously through stationary traffic.
We are being asked to "Think Bike", but the thought process should be two way.
Christopher Pratt
Dorking, Surrey
Touring the airwaves
SIR – I have completely bypassed DAB digital radio (Letters, November 10) in favour of internet radio streamed via my mobile phone. Travelling between Buxton and Matlock along the A6, which is devoid of even FM signals for part of the way, I find myself listening to overnight radio KCFX from Kansas City or WXFX from Montgomery, Alabama.
Alan Dawson
Buxton, Derbyshire
SIR – If other readers have digital television reception they will find that they can get all the main BBC radio stations on the 700 series of channels. There is no need to buy a digital radio at all.
Marcus Croome
Truro, Cornwall
SIR – I enjoy the clear signal of digital radio so much that I replaced my radios in the house and portable radios with digital, so I can listen wherever I am without the hiss and fade that I suffered with analogue.
Margaret Lees
Tonbridge, Kent
Hated primate
SIR – Christopher Howse (Sacred Mysteries, November 10) recommends the biography of Cosmo Lang to our new archbishop. However, Lang was not universally popular.
Henry "Chips" Channon wrote on the day Lang resigned: "(He) has done irreparable harm to the Church of England; narrow, snobbish, cold, vengeful, he has emptied the churches, alienated thousands and is hated by laymen and ecclesiastics alike."
Let's hope the Anglican Church has done better this time.
Michael Esther
Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire
Undercover work of a high-profile police officer
SIR – Your obituary of Daphne Skillern (November 8) mentions how she was commended for her role in arresting three dangerous and persistent criminals. She kept observation on a gang of robbers in a caravan for three months.
It was dangerous work; under cover of darkness, she would listen at the caravan's window to obtain evidence, despite the presence of an alsatian. Once, the gang offered her a lift to the shops; she refused.
After the gang was arrested, as she stepped into the witness box at the Old Bailey, the leader gasped: "God, it's old iron face!" Speaking to me years later, Daphne said: "Obviously, they clocked my face, which probably wasn't too friendly."
Dick Kirby
Author, The Sweeney
Great Whelnetham, Suffolk
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