Reader's letter of the day

From The FT:

Sir, I see Richard Lambert, director-general of the CBI employers’ organisation, insists that taxpayers should bail out ailing companies (Taxpayers must plug the big companies’ credit gap, January 16). The questions I want to ask him are:

* Is he in any way related to the same CBI whose members never tire of complaining about high tax rates?

* Who, if anybody, should bail out the small- and medium-sized companies?

Dipak Ghosh, Economics Department, Stirling University, Stirling, UK.