It is perhaps fortunate that your lead letter 'Tools of the trade' writer (see [2009] Gazette, 18 February, 11) withheld their personal details. As a state-educated solicitor, I fear I might otherwise have reacted by taking a break from chewing my crayons, loading up my wheelbarrow with suitable weaponry and heading down to 'discuss' my limited social skills with him - as and when I had finished the Sun crossword, obviously. As my other state-educated friends and I would say, that will learn him.

Stephen Hattersley, Partner, Ison Harrison Leeds