Prince Charles has urged the world to live and work in harmony with nature and the planet, as you report in your print edition (Charles’s call to make 2022 a ‘year of action’, 31 January). I wonder if this will be reflected in the raising and shooting of game birds on royal estates. Not much harmony being shown there.
Ann Newell
Thame, Oxfordshire
• Dominic Cummings has called the prime minister a “duffer … unfit for the job” (Report, 30 January). A handwritten poster seen in a student’s window in Oxford last Saturday: “If even Boris received a 2:1 there is hope for us all.”
Clare Addison
Oxford
• If “one bad apple spoils the whole barrel”, what will be the effect of “a few” of them (Met officer was promoted despite misconduct over sexist and racist messages, 2 February)?
Carole Coleman
Copley, West Yorkshire
• When speaking of something she hoped to do, my God-fearing great aunt would often say, “if spared” (Letters, 2 February). Visiting a churchyard on one occasion, she said that she would like to be buried there, “if spared”.
Andrew Bradstock
St Helens, Isle of Wight
• Has no one else noticed the strong similarities between Wordle (Editorial, 2 January) and a tweaked revival of the 1988 game Lingo, now on ITV on weekdays?
Rev Robin Blount
Low Moor, Lancashire
• Good to see that manifesting is bang on trend (3 February). I’ve been doing it successfully for years, but I call it daydreaming.
Sam White
Lewes, East Sussex
