Letter to the Telegraph

For more years than I can remember, I have read the letters to the editor in the Daily Telegraph. Never all of them, never even most of them, but often just the humorous ones and especially those in the bottom right hand corner…that's the place to be.

If I recall correctly, I have written to the Editor about four times myself, during the course of thirty years, and had two letters published: I intend to try to find the other (yes, I will have kept it; no, I have no idea where) but the other day I stumbled across the one below, where I got…the bottom right hand corner spot.

The theme was 'what would be useless' and my letter was written during the run up to the awarding of the Commonwealth games, which ended in being a competition between Sydney and Manchester.

I don't know why I signed my letters in those days with 'W'; it wasn't like, comparing with George W Bush, I was trying to distinguish myself from another Allan Beardsworth.

Writing this blog brings back to memory the fact that I got many calls and some notes from friends who had read the letter…it might even be that the bottom right hand corner is the most read section of the Telegraph.

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