As Rishi Sunak travels the UK in an RAF jet (Sunak’s private jet to Scotland may have breached ministerial code, says Labour, 31 July), perhaps he should consider that his expert pilot has just received the lowest percentage pay increase of all public sector workers (5%) and that, with no recourse to comment (let alone strike), all our military personnel have endured real-terms pay cuts for over a decade.
Lynne Power
Frithville, Lincolnshire
• Sloughvian? Nice to see my home town get a mention (Mick Jagger’s 80 greatest moments, on his 80th birthday, 26 July), but if you’re from Slough, you’re a Paludian (Latin, palus, paludis: swamp, slough, marsh), as any former pupil of the local grammar school will tell you.
Simon Lacey
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, US
• I loved my sister’s hand-me-down Sindy in the late 1960s (Barbie is now queen. But for my generation, Sindy reigned supreme, 27 July). Sadly, she was often in the local dolls’ hospital as her head had a tendency to fall off (Sindy’s, not my sister’s).
Ailsa Clarke
Freeland, Oxfordshire
• If all our efforts must be devoted to tackling the evil of inflation, why not the same determination over inflation in property prices (How UK house prices left the middle class behind, 28 July)?
Marian Sainsbury
London
• To paraphrase Groucho Marx, surely Nigel Farage wouldn’t want to rejoin any bank that would have him (Nigel Farage says new Coutts boss has offered to keep his accounts open, 31 July)?
Phil Sinnott
Crosby, Merseyside
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