Italy’s supreme court has the best Italian theological authority for its decision on the starving man who stole the sausage and the cheese (Report, 4 May). Thomas Aquinas wrote: “It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another’s property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need.”
Denis Lenihan
London
• Many individuals and institutions have been invoked in connection with Leicester’s Premiership success, from Richard III to Showaddywaddy (Report, 4 May). Strangely, I have seen no mention of Family. They were a great band, and the cover of their 1974 compilation, Best of Family, is a picture of them playing for Leicester City.
Michael Cunningham
Wolverhampton
• I wonder if Bill Tordoff (Letters, 5 May) might concede that, for joined-up travel, an ideally unplanned town or city would have its bus station right beside its railway station.
Richard Harley
Alresford, Hampshire
• So celebrities have discovered something that customers of Wiggly Wigglers have known for some years; namely, the advantages of wearing goats’ wool socks (Farmer says goat-hair socks can be worn for a year with no smell, 5 May).
Marie Paterson
Nuneaton, Warwickshire
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