If Adrian Chiles’s garden really gets his goat (The unspoken truth about gardening? It is a relentless, unwinnable war, 4 May), then he should do just that – get a goat. It will clear the thicket in a trice, leaving only the most stubborn bushes for his shredder to devour. BBC Radio 4’s Farming Today might commission a feature.
Jonathan Hauxwell
Cross Hills, North Yorkshire
• Regarding Keir Starmer’s views on university tuition fees (Report, 3 May), has he considered a graduate tax? This could spread student debt over a lifetime of employment, with the better paid graduates paying a higher rate and the badly paid or unemployed paying little or nothing.
Marilyn Mason
London
• Whatever you think of the public oath of allegiance introduced into the coronation service, it’s a nice indication of the culture change over the past 400 years (Charles is the king of apathy, not our hearts – he risks it all by asking for more, 2 May). If you want to swear allegiance, please feel free to join in, we’re told. If you don’t, that’s fine. Previous kings haven’t always seen it that way.
Richard Norman
Canterbury
• As an anti-monarchist and an atheist, the only bit of the suggested oath of allegiance I shall be saying on Saturday is “So help me”.
Katherine Hind
Stocksfield, Northumberland
• I read with concern your article about mosses under threat of extinction (Red list reveals Britain’s extinction-threatened mosses and liverworts, 28 April). We would be prepared to donate the moss in our lawn to a conservation project. Collector removes.
Jonathan Cooke
Stockport, Greater Manchester
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