Re bucket or baseball (Bucket hats and baseball caps battle it out this summer, 23 June), while either of these items of headgear will “keep heads protected and noses in the shade”, it is equally important to keep the ears (pinnae) protected in order to prevent the development of basal cell carcinoma or (more seriously) squamous cell carcinoma. Hence, bucket should probably be the winner – but if you prefer baseball, use sunscreen to protect your ears.
Martin Goodwin
Standish, Lancashire
• Adrian Chiles wants to know why everything, including cars, is grey (Opinion, 28 June). The answer is that product designers knew subconsciously that we were heading for a recession. In the 1990s, you could buy any woman’s garment you wanted as long as it was grey, for the same reason.
Margaret Squires
St Andrews, Fife
• Exactly 60 years ago, Hannah Arendt wrote of the banality of evil. Nesrine Malik’s thoughtful article is yet another illustration of social media as the evil of banality (It doesn’t matter if a girl identified as a cat (she didn’t). The issue is how post-truth politics exploits it, 26 June).
Dr James Anderson
Hastings, New Zealand
• The exit song at a recent funeral I attended was Isn’t It Grand Boys by the Clancy Brothers (Letters, 28 June). The chorus: “And always remember, the longer you live, the sooner you’ll bloody well die.”
Diane Gamble
Stockport, Greater Manchester
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