I would have thought that if one was taking the trouble to write to The Times (I hadn't realised that people still did that) it would be to tackle bigger issues such as Saudi's barbaric and brutal legal system, its disgusting human rights record, its suppression of women or its slaughter of thousands of innocent people in Yemen using weaponry supplied by UK companies and sanctioned by our government. To write to denounce the bad manners of one misguided elderly man seems pompous and petty.