Your railway company sounds as cruel and callous as the hoodlum passengers who have been upsetting the well-mannered fare-paying ladies and gentlemen.

I am coming for a visit from the US, the most violent country on earth, and I was looking forward to some old-fashioned English decency.

Has Mr Blair's mimicking of George Bush filtered down to your youth as well?

-Leonard Buschel, San Anselmo, California, USA