As an Australian, I look on with some no small trepidation when it comes to observing the United States of America and its current monarch. I do take some exception, though, to your putting down of any man who does ballet from making political comment.

It takes a huge amount of bravery and self-confidence, not to mention athleticism, to don a pair of tights and lift eager young women over your shoulders as you dance up a storm. Those men who do it are fantastic and to be much admired, rather than deprecated.

I think, from observing Mr Reagan’s biography, that ballet would be the best of Ronald Reagan Jr’s qualifications for making comments about toughness, moral fibre and political stammina!

Thankyou for your website.

Yours sincerely,

Nigel McBain.
Melbourne, Australia.