Sifting sincere beard-growers from lazy shavers
SIR – The Home Office has raised an important question: when is a beard not a beard (“Stubble ban for border staff ”, report, September 13)?
First, we need a standard definition, covering length and surface area. Then the Home Office will need to allow beard leave for those critical days when an employee’s sincere attempt to grow a beard might be misinterpreted as slovenliness.
John Newman
Hinckley, Leicestershire