Sad spectacle of Question Time

AFTER a self-imposed exile of several months from watching BBC Question Time, I made a serious error in switching on the programme last Thursday.

This error lasted only 15 minutes before I was compelled to turn off the television. I have never heard so much baying, squawking and grunting as I did watching those few minutes.

The contestants – and it is a contest as to who can speak the quickest, loudest and rudest – were all trying to outwit or interrupt each other.

What an example it was for other countries to see in operation our modern day politicians and opinion formers.

Certainly, common sense and clear rational thinking were very much in short supply.

Wrong college shut its doors

From: Iain Morris, Caroline Street, Saltaire, Bradford.

WHEN Bradford Metropolitan District was formed in 1974, it was found it had three teacher training colleges within its boundaries – at Bradford, Bingley and Ilkley. One of these had to go, either Bingley or Ilkley.

It is easy to see with hindsight that the wrong decision was made to close Bingley. Ilkley no longer exists. Just as Trinity and All Saints Catholic Teachers’ Training College in Horsforth has become a third university for Leeds (known as Leeds Trinity), Bingley Teachers’ Training College could have become a second university for Bradford.

Woman’s words

From: Christine McDade, Morton on Swale, North Yorkshire.

I THANK Robert V Rishworth (Yorkshire Post, October 4) for his support of my letter pointing out that there are adequate laws in existence which, if implemented, would have a direct effect on the mayhem on the streets caused by drunken revellers. I am sorry he has to assume that I am a male, when in fact I am a female – but not of the “burn the bra” brigade.