Sir - Christopher Gray points out (Gray Matter, November 30) that the Daily Mail's disapproval of "wife-beater" Stella Artois is rather let down by an Asda advert for discount Stella in the same paper.

On the same day, The Oxford Times devoted half of page three to a shock-horror story about a Summertown brothel raid - while happily printing 13 adverts for "massagers" and "escort agencies" under the euphemistic heading of adult services.

Richard Fairhurst, Charlbury