Table manners

ISN’T it time for the silly snobs at Tatler magazine and their ridiculous rules about dinner parties (Mail) to be consigned to the rubbish bin?

Are those of us whose dining tables are too small to accommodate eight people to be denied the pleasure of entertaining? How rude not to cater for guests with food intolerances — surely the point is to make people happy.

Nothing makes for a more interesting conversation than Brexit, a topic Tatler would like to ban, but we don’t fall out about it.

There’s no way I would allow anyone to smoke at the table. And we commoners have never asked women to retire to the drawing room.

I’ll invite a few friends to enjoy a shepherd’s pie. Sorry, no space for Tatler.

W. E. PEASE, Newark Notts.