YOU know when you see Hugh Pender’s name on one of his innumerable letters it will be the usual anti-Conservative, anti- American, anti-police rant.

Talk about variations on a theme.

Now he moves on to cricket, in which he is clearly well versed.

With exceptional insight, he informs us only English people are interested in the outcome of the Ashes, or, indeed cricket.

Strange that. Scotland and Ireland both have international cricket teams and is Glamorgan’s inclusion in the county tables a misprint?

Finally, he has a dig at our Prime Minister. If David Cameron is, as Hugh suggests, merely the Prime Minister of the English shires and this makes Hugh uncomfortable, can I suggest he returns from whence he came.

D Kilvert, Darlington.