A NATIONAL newspaper’s headline reads “Tell teachers if you know a tax dodger”.

Not very many years ago, the Soviet Union attracted strong adverse publicity in this country for exhorting citizens to report others for acts of this nature. Perhaps snitching would be a better word. If school children are now called on to pursue similar acts, where will it all end? Our poor country – how far will it sink?

DAVID BARNARD, Cherwell Avenue, Kidlington