Letters | 4 February 2012

A woman’s work

Sir: I enjoyed Andrew M. Brown’s article on the rise of the ‘Dalis’ (28 January). As the working wife of a man who earns more than I do, I drew comfort from the fact that more and more women are becoming the main breadwinners. At the same time, it is irritating to think of all those useless men sitting about dreaming while their wives slave away from home. Perhaps we will all eventually reach the same conclusion as our more militant sisters — we don’t really need men at all.
Florence Hayden-Smith
Hampshire

Sir: How typical to find that, at a time when women’s magazines endlessly discuss whether the gentler sex can ‘have it all’ (by all they mean a job, a family, and happiness), ‘Dali’ men are the ones having things entirely their way. They get income without the work, the satisfaction of family life, and the freedom to pursue their dreams. Lucky sods.
Anna Simonds
London W11

Speaking for England

Sir: Is it not a little presumptuous of Elizabeth McFarlane  (Letters, 28 January) to assume that we English welcome the widespread presence of her fellow countrymen’s ‘genteel and intelligent’ Scottish accents on Radio 4? As a gesture towards addressing the prevailing imbalance, Radio 4 might offer one day a year with no Scottish accents — what about the under-recognised St George’s Day?
John Heywood
East Sussex

Resistance and murder

Sir: In his television review (21 January) James Delingpole commends Jonathan Meades for having little time for General de Gaulle, citing just one reason, the ‘disgraceful treatment’ of the OAS leader Roger Degueldre and his ‘messy execution’ to ‘sate liberal bloodlust’. Delingpole backs his condemnation of De Gaulle by describing Degueldre simply as ‘one of the few genuine resistants’.

This is revisionism carried to indecent lengths.