Sir – Could not the editors of The Oxford Times, in this age of austerity, show a little more taste and sensitivity and in any one issue set limits to Christopher Gray’s glorying in his own high living? (Gray Matter and restaurant review, January 27).
I imagine that even city bankers would not be so crass as to boast in print about their enjoyment of hotels and restaurants so expensive as to be beyond the reach of most of us.
Who funds all this self-indulgence, recorded in excruciating autobiographical detail? Not, I hope, the humble purchasers of The Oxford Times. (I notice, incidentally, that at Brown’s Hotel, Mr Toad could persuade no one more elevated than the doorman to be photographed with him).
Surely it would be more appropriate if, at least for a period, he was restricted to road-testing cheap eateries and guest houses?
This might also afford some of us a little welcome Schadenfreude at his expense.
Edward Richardson, Cumnor
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