Allow me to congratulate Helen Mead on her excellent column in Tuesday’s paper (I choose not to have all this choice, February 24).

I don’t have a cat, although I love animals, but her observations apply to so many aspects of ordinary life these days.

She has my sympathy and full agreement with her brilliantly expressed sentiments about the ridiculous amount of commercial nonsense we all have to deal with in shops and online.

It is the best column I have read in a long time and should be circulated far and wide. More power to your pen, Helen.

Hugh MacDougall, Glenside Flats, Fourth Avenue, York.