It's been ages since anyone wrote to the letters pages disagreeing with one of my opinion pieces. I pretend that I don't care, but we columnists thrive on mischief. It's fine if readers don't agree; the real misery is when people don't react at all.My boyfriend loves telling people about an eight-page thread on an internet farming forum titled "It must be very difficult to be as stupid as Matt Naylor". I'm proud of it, too, but recently I fear I may have gone soft.
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