A smack is assault

One has to admire BBC Director General Tony Hall for deflecting the absolutely justified outrage at these crazy salaries by bringing in the smokescreen of the gender gap, so that he can appear to be the knight on a white charger who rides to the rescue of the fairer sex.

No my dear DG, we do not need more women earning On the subject of smacking children, John V Lloyd (Letters 19 July) describes the recently appointed Children’s Commissioner, Bruce Adamson, as a “Foreign National”. I’m not sure what relevance that has other than to give us an insight