Another German word for Rishi Sunak’s situation (Letters, 3 September) is zugzwang, a term in chess for a poor position, where any move would make the current bad situation even worse.
Christopher Pankhurst
Winchester
• Zoe Williams’ father, who, she writes, hated Carl Jung (5 September) would have appreciated the cartoon in which one rat says to another: “I’ve really got this psychologist conditioned; every time I press this lever he gives me food.”
David Cooper
Nafferton, East Yorkshire
• Thank you for your excellent double-page Spot the Ball, showing members of two sailing clubs playing cricket on a sandbar in the middle of the Solent (Eyewitness, 4 September). I still can’t find it.
Ellie Sedgwick
Halesworth, Suffolk
• Devi Sridhar hit the nail on the head about university (Turn up in person, get used to rejection and eat more than cornflakes: my advice to university freshers, 5 September). Learning to cook was the most useful thing I took away from years at college. Oh, and some other valuable stuff in passing.
Prof Keith Hayward
University of Lancaster, 1966-69
• Reading about Raac (Report, 6 September), I wonder what the builders of the Pantheon in Rome (circa CE 126) gave as the design life of their concrete? Should someone have a word?
Mike Abbott
London
• Happily waved off the children to first day of school year. They looked so cute in their new uniforms and hard hats.
Jude Carr
London
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