Universities, currently warning of looming economic catastrophe and expecting bailouts, should also be considered in any review of executive pay (Editorial, 12 August). Chancellors pay themselves telephone-number salaries while undertaking madcap schemes and paying academic staff peanuts. Time to reconnect with reality.
Ewa Lipniacka
London
• Curly, frizzy hair (Letters, 12 August) was admired during the second world war. I was evacuated from London to Almondbury, Huddersfield, in 1941. A lady on her way to the village hall to pick up an evacuee was told by her husband: “Get one with curly hair.” I am, and she did. And a happy four years ensued for all of us.
Pat Robson
Bath
• Humans are destroying the Earth. Fewer and fewer of us seems like good news, not cause for concern (Birthrates are plummeting worldwide. Can governments turn the tide?, 10 August).
Dr Kate Jewel
Springdale, Utah, US
• The police in London have described Banksy’s colouring-in of a police sentry box (Report, 11 August) as “criminal damage”. Is there nothing on the statute books that says “criminal enhancement”?
Peter Declan O’Halloran
Belturbet, County Cavan, Ireland
• You state (Corrections and clarifications, 12 August) that the reference to Tommy Robinson relying on an international network of wealthy “bankers” for funding, should have said “backers”. I would have changed a different letter.
Phil Coughlin
Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne and Wear
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