London Underground was right to ban poster

2:59pm Wednesday 28th March 2001

I was incensed by the cynical and sarcastic tone of your Comment on March 22. You take London Underground to task for banning a poster showing girls in bikinis posing provocatively on a bridge in Hendon.

Yet on the very same page you carry a long report about the new 'Money and Morals' curriculum piloted by the Jewish Association for Business Ethics and the DfEE.

In the article your reporter notes that 20 per cent of young people see nothing wrong in using public transport without a ticket.

One can not blithely dismiss the moral sensitivities of those who (like me) feel gratuitously offended by posters such as that thankfully banned by LU, and at the same time champion the cause of greater moral awareness in the area of money.

I don't think that our right to travel in public without offence to our religious and moral values should be brushed aside lightly.

Your sarcastic implication that LU ought to be devoting all its energies to making trains run on time instead of employing a tiny number of people to oversee the content of advertising on its network is unworthy of a normally sensible, sensitive and intelligent Comment column.

Mr Yitzchak Freeman, Edgware