I’m sorry that only those between 18 and 30 have been invited to apply to take part in the tattooing of all the letters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, one letter at a time (Report, 6 August). A decade ago, in my late 60s, I got a tattoo on my wrist to commemorate my great-grandmother who was a suffragette, imprisoned in Holloway and awarded the Holloway brooch. My tattoo has the purple, white and green flashes of the brooch.
Sally Smith
Redruth, Corwall
• Natalie Haynes advises fringe performers not to read reviews (Some people just won’t like you, but don’t take it personally: what surviving the fringe taught me about life, 7 August). Many years ago at the fringe I took part in a hastily put together and under-rehearsed first production of a play by a then unknown playwright. Only after we’d read the reviews did we realise what a theatrical masterpiece we’d been performing.
Walter Merricks
Polonius, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, 1966
• Having for years endured my surname being mangled into Biddy, Billy, Bilby and various other permutations, I am saddened that it takes the mooring of a monstrous barge off Portland for people to finally get it right.
Stephen Bibby
Silchester, Hampshire
• Re Rishi Sunak’s trousers (Letters, 7 August), in Liverpool in the 1970s the popular rebuke was: “Why don’t you spread some jam on yer shoes and invite yer keks down for tea!”
Terry O’Hara
Liverpool
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