As a victim of “hepeating” on occasion, I was delighted to read about this practice (Pass notes, 16 May). It reminded me of a great Jacky Fleming cartoon and postcard: “That’s an excellent idea, Miss Brown. Would one of the men like to make it?”
Liz Bavidge
Halifax, West Yorkshire
• Ed Davey “can’t remember a time when the Liberal Democrats were more important to getting the Tories out of power” (Lib Dems ‘already campaigning’ for Tiverton and Honiton byelection, 15 May). Is that because they spent half of the last decade keeping them in it?
Alan Gray
Brighton
• According to the economic anthropologist Jason Hickel, no political party supports a global minimum wage (Do we need a worldwide minimum wage? We ask an expert, 13 May). Does the Green party not count? A global living wage and global minimum labour standards are settled elements of Green party policy.
John Gray
York
• Einstein? I put my money on my outsized T-shirt with a huge print – on the back and the front – of Mahatma Gandhi and the words “Non-violence is more powerful than an atomic bomb” (Who owns Einstein? The battle for the world’s most famous face, 17 May).
Val Mainwood
Wivenhoe, Essex
• When I opened my back door to let my dogs out on Monday morning, I heard a cuckoo sing – the first after years of silence. What joy! I have also had two hedgehogs in the garden after years of absence. All I need now is for the multitude of grasshoppers that once inhabited my field to come back.
Jan Cook
South Nutfield, Surrey
