What an overwrought and unpleasant article your investigations editor Paul Hutcheon produced about the play based on Alan McCombes's attack on Tommy Sheridan (The joke's on Sheridan in a Fringe fable, News, August 5).

Whatever the merits of Ian Pattison's play, the article is hysterically unbalanced. Was Mr Hutcheon given a fright by a socialist when he was a child?

Brian Dempsey

Dundee

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