WELL said Bob Waite (“I’ve always found Evans a turn-off”, Letters, September 11).

If anyone on Radio 2 loved the sound of his own voice, it was Chris Evans.

He was even known to talk over the entire intro to Smoke On The Water. Sacrilege.

I, too, pity Virgin listeners.

Mick Horseman,

Fulford Road, York

Shutting of Leeman Road is a done deal

ONCE again I feel I must comment on the leaflet posted locally through our letterboxes by the NRM from its director, Judith McNicol, which outlines their latest proposals.

It is interesting to see that the NRM can produce this information leaflet with all these proposals and with the information they want to put to the public for their own benefit, but cannot produce a leaflet of the kind I suggested in a previous letter to The Press posing the question: Should Leeman Road be shut permanently or should it be kept open?

All the NRM’s proposals are based on the closure of Leeman Road permanently.

If this decision has already been made, let’s have it in the public domain and let’s hear about the meetings and the people who have been involved in any so-called decisions.

It states in the third paragraph of the leaflet that the private car comes bottom of the hierarchy.

That says it all, done deal, Leeman Road is shutting permanently.

Only two lines mention vehicular access and that is the last two lines on the leaflet.

Steven Maxwell,

Garfield Terrace,

Leeman Road, York

The ideas for social welfare are not new

THE letters by Geoff Robb and Peter Rickaby on Jeremy Corbyn (The Press, September 8) illustrate the fault in personality-centred politics.

The idea of collective responsibility for social welfare was not conceived by Marx, let alone Corbyn.

It has been endorsed by human societies for thousands of years, as Christians and other believers know from their scriptures.

Jesus for example, drawing on Abrahamic, ie Jewish texts, famously commanded all who follow his teaching: “Bear ye one another’s burdens.”

This Christian teaching was behind the decision made by very conservative English Parliaments centuries ago to fund spending for the common good by imposing progressive income tax, ie the greater an individual’s income, the more tax he should pay.

Corbyn’s manifesto, insisting that the rich pay their full pro-rata share of tax, is simply endorsing that decision and a statement made by the English philosopher, Richard Hooker in the 16th century.

Detailing the rules that historically govern God, nature, humans, and human societies, Hooker wrote: “It is the understood duty of the rulers of human societies to feed, clothe and house their people.”

Maurice Vassie,

Deighton, York