The five Tory faces featured in Labour’s new digital campaign with the heading “Chaos & decline” (Starmer may be bland – but that passes the taste test in a country sick of spicy politics, 8 May) have one thing in common – attendance at Oxford University. Could we ask this august institution, on humanitarian grounds, to call a ceasefire in its war against the broken, battered and struggling people of this country and confine its graduates to employment in areas where they will do less harm?
David Beake
Sheringham, Norfolk
• An exception to the deservedly poor reputation of exhibition audio guides (Letters, 8 May) is when they are composed and voiced by the artists themselves. Bridget Riley’s audio guide to her 2003 exhibition at Tate was enlightening and indispensable. It is one of the few times I’ve used a guide, and I went to her show twice more as a result.
Rupert Wood
London
• Even sadder than gallery visitors taking photos of pictures were the many people I saw in the Impressionism section of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris with their backs to the paintings, taking selfies with them as mere background.
Maggie Hamilton
Oxford
• Yippee! Now a group of unrepresentative upper-class women can join the unrepresentative upper-class men at the Garrick Club in deciding our future. Equality is a marvellous thing (Report, 7 May).
Dr Michael Paraskos
London
• How about renaming it the Swiss peacekeepers knife (Letters, 8 May)?
Peter Gray
Chesterfield, Derbyshire
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