How wonderful to read the latest This is how we do it column (11 January). When I was hawking my latest novel, now thankfully in print, around agents and publishers, I was told that the subject matter, specifically older people enjoying vibrant sex lives, was too implausible and unrealistic. I am glad that Elizabeth and Alfred, both in their 90s, have proved them all wrong.
Vesna Main
London
• Your interviewee who vowed to renounce Greggs sausage rolls if they went up to £1.50 must avoid the branch in Derby train station, where I recently paid £1.60 (Greggs boss defends price hikes amid anger over cost of sausage roll, 9 January).
Prof Dominic Regan
Bath
• Rather than John Crace referring to Elon Musk as “the Muskster” (The politics sketch, 8 January) it might be more appropriate to refer to him as “the Muckstir”.
Hilary Jensen
Pangbourne, Berkshire
• When Donald Trump annexes Greenland, it will bring down the US’s average temperature dramatically (Why is Donald Trump talking about annexing Greenland?, 8 January). Global climate crisis solved.
Nick Smith
Oxford
• I always enjoy reading Marina Hyde’s columns, not least for the coining of new words. This weekend was no exception (There are no adults in the room: there’s barely a room. This is politics at warp speed, and we know who’s benefiting, 10 January). There was “auto-satirical” for Tulip Siddiq and “permabungling” for Kemi Badenoch.
Rae Street
Littleborough, Greater Manchester
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