I MUST make a comment concerning Aled Jones.

For many months, readers of The Press have had to put up with the leftish, republican diatribes of that ex-citizen of the Principality of Wales.

We have had his quasi-Christian moralising and now we find he cannot follow one of the tenets of the Ten Commandments, "Thou shalt not steal" (Is it really theft?, Readers' Letters, October 5).

The forgetful older person who leaves something on a bus is not worthy, the harassed mum with small children in tow who leaves her purse on a shop counter is not worthy.

"Finders keepers" is a children's motto and that does not allow a responsible adult to follow such a path.

Is not the time for "moralists" of dubious credentials to put up and shut up?

David Marsh, Millfield Lane, York.

  • YOUR correspondent Aled Jones seems to have his bowels in permanent uproar over various problems, usually the poor treatment of animals (can't fault him for that) or the way our Royal Family lead a fairly comfortable lifestyle funded by the taxpayer.

However, in his latest outburst he is advocating "theft by finding" as perfectly acceptable which, in my book, is most definitely not the case.

His statement: "But surely accidental finding something isn't the same as stealing" has to be one of the most open-ended excuses for theft there could be.

The pure arrogance of another outburst: "After all, someone that is carelessly able to lose something of value is not worthy to own" is so breathtakingly awful it beggars belief.

Mr Jones comes across as a very sad, miserable person who would be advised to, as The Pythons sang: "Always look on the bright side of life."

Philip Roe, Roman Avenue South, Stamford Bridge, York.