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No time for Homes under the Hammer
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Homes under the Hammer. Jane Moth says watching it is a rare treat as she spends most of the day
doing the ‘Quick Crossword’. Photograph: BBC
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Wednesday 28 December 2016 18.07 GMT Last modified on Wednesday 28 December 2016
22.00 GMT
Part 1 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act, for which the Tories and the Lib
Dems were equally responsible, was arguably the worst piece of legislation in the coalition years,
and not just for family law (Letters, 28 December). Social welfare law was almost destroyed too. It
is ironic that but for a tied vote in the Lords, the government would have been forced to modify its
legal aid domestic violence policy. I agree that the justice select committee report was woefully
uncritical. Even now the government refuses to review this shocking mistake.
Willy Bach
Labour shadow justice minister in the Lords 2010- 12, House of Lords
• I have a great deal of sympathy with your new reader Don Abbey and his bafflement as to why your
TV listings only begin at 6pm (Letters, 27 December). He will soon learn that your readers have no
capacity to watch daytime TV due to the demands of your supposedly “Quick Crossword”, which
regularly takes up to eight man hours to complete. Watching Homes under the Hammer is something of
a rare treat.
Jane Moth
Snettisham, Norfolk
• Kit Hill asks if Trump’s enthusiasm for a nuclear arsenal makes him a terrorist (Letters, 28
December)? Has he forgotten the standard definition of a terrorist: someone with a bomb but without
an air force?
George Schlesinger