Surely Occam’s razor must be applied in the debate about beards and philosophy (Letters, 18 February)? Take, for example, the case of a fraudulent, yet fully hirsute, philosophy lecturer who fails to be appointed to any posts at all in the higher education est ablishments of the Nottingham area; is wisdom to be found in showing a knave with chairless hops around a Fair-base rather than in knowing a shave with hairless chops around a bare face?
Fr Alec Mitchell
Holyhead, Anglesey
Guardian 20th February
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