Bad writing can still keep readers gripped | Brief letters

Andrew Neil | Hadrian’s Wall | Dan Brown | Lady Bracknell | Fall in house pricesI don’t know which is the sadder comment about the BBC – the Trumpian misogynistic 3am tweet about prize-winning reporter Carole Cadwalladr coming from the host of one of the broadcaster’s most high-profile political shows, or that the female BBC journalists who have complained don’t want to be identified because of potential “repercussions” (Senior women at BBC complain to b