A letter to the Daily Telegraph which was published on 8th June 1995.

It was also chosen in bowdlerised form by David Twistan Davies (letters editor) when he published a collection of his favourite letters to the Daily Telegraph.

Following its thoughtful report on marriage, there are rumours of a forthcoming Church report on burglary which is said to be circulating.

This comments: “Some of the reasons for choosing burglary as a way of life were grounded on sober, harsh reality, such as unhappy experiences of working in a regular job.

The phrase ‘criminal’ is a most unhelpful way of characterising the lives of burglars.  It has the effect of reducing burglary in all its complexity of intentions and forms to a single sensational category.”