Sir, - The head of the Scottish Episcopal Church, Bishop Richard Holloway, has proposed that bishops in Britain should throw their mitres into the Thames - as a sign of their desire to free their church from "prelatical pomposity". What are the chances of the archbishops of Dublin throwing theirs into the Liffey - perhaps as a contribution to the Riverdance mania?
Besides, mitres are unquestionably what used to be called an occasion of sin". I am an authority on the subject, as I cannot see a mitre without wishing I had a catapult. Does anyone know from what ridiculous sartorial era and culture they derive? If it was first century Palestine, I'll eat my baseball cap. Yours, etc.,
Greenhill Road,
Coleraine.