SIR - Watch your back, Martin Roberts. You say vandals and arsonists should actually be punished.

The wrath of the do-gooders will come down on your head.

And did you not write earlier this year that "stricter discipline must be brought back to the classroom"? Ironically enough, education secretary Ruth Kelly is to announce a "new" New Labour policy about a strict new code of classroom discipline.

FRANK L JONES,

Malvern.