Usually, my letters have a playful tone – you can get your point across with humour
I started writing to my local paper, the Liverpool Echo, in 1978, when I was 28. One of my first letters was a response to a story about what’s known locally as Mizzie Night, an annual event with a folklore reputation, when the youth go mad, setting fire to cars and robbing pensioners at knife-point. At the time, Liverpool was a pretty lawless place: I was being ironic when I wrote in to say it was just another normal day in the city.
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