You say the Garrick Club “counts … Sir Kingsley Amis among its members” (Garrick could admit women after barrister U-turns on club rules, 16 September). It does seem a tad unfair that the club can hold out a welcome to a man who’s been dead for nearly 28 years, while shutting the door to any living woman.
Nigel Gann
Lichfield, Staffordshire
• Grace Dent’s feature (‘It’s the great leveller, uniting people across social classes’: Grace Dent on Britain’s love affair with cheese, 16 September) brought back so many memories. As a child, tea at my grandparents’ farm always included apple pie eaten with a large slice of cheddar cheese. Any visitors who looked perplexed were told: “Apple pie without the cheese is like a kiss without the squeeze.”
Sue Barton
Sessay, North Yorkshire
• Rishi Sunak’s spokesperson would do well to learn a little about school inspections before saying it is “important not to take a snapshot of a single day and draw wider assumptions” (Eighty prison officers absent from Wandsworth on day of Daniel Khalife’s escape, 16 September).
Philip Allen
Retired headteacher, London
• It is tempting to engage with Liz Truss’s latest doubling down, to expose its self-serving vacuity (Liz Truss: economic consensus since 1997 to blame for UK woes – not me, 17 September). But would it not be better simply to ignore it as unworthy of serious consideration?
Mark de Brunner
Burn Bridge, North Yorkshire
• Thank you, thank you, thank you, Michael Rosen, for your priceless words (In these troubled times we all get the ‘bothers’, but I have a surefire cure: write them down, 15 September). I bothered, and now I’m not.
Lizzie Lee
Arundel, West Sussex
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