For whom does Steve Bell toil?

The cartoonist Steve Bell. Photograph: Jochen Luebke/EPA

Steve Bell (16 March) is adamant in his defence of his “right to offend”, but seems to deny, in each stage of that defence, the reader’s right to be offended.
Dr Ronnie Aitchison
Normanton, South Yorkshire

• Ask not for whom Steve Bell toils; he toils for thee.
Louis Hellman
London

• Apropos Open door (March 16): what price a “Je suis Steve” pin?
Dr Mike Rushton
Little Budworth, Cheshire