David Panter is up the spout. What arrogance to impose conditions on the Rape Crisis Project to force it to break confidentiality, which is surely essential to encourage these most vulnerable and stressed women (and men) to come forward.

What typically smug bureaucracy to sit back and use some law which is ill-designed for this purpose and must be tested and appealed against.

To make snide personal remarks about Julie Burchill is well below the level expected of a chief executive and is the sort of thing people resort to who have run out of substantive argument.

Come off it, David. You can do better. Your salary comes out of our taxes.

-Liz Walker, Marine Parade, Brighton