I searched Saturday’s Guardian in vain for your customary April fool gag. Maybe this year I’m excessively gullible or perhaps you made April fools of us all by there simply being no April fool. If so, it’s an excellent ruse to get us all to scour every inch of your columns.
Sylvia Edwards
Sale, Greater Manchester
• Robert Jenrick says that “we must not elevate the wellbeing of illegal migrants above those of the British people” (Asylum seekers will get the most basic housing possible, says Robert Jenrick, 29 March). In fairness, after 13 years of Tory rule, that’s a pretty low bar!
Chris Hooper
Nottingham
• Re hash browns (Pass notes, 3 April), whatever happened to fried bread? Crunchy, salty and fatty – the perfect accompaniment to bacon and eggs. When a French teenager stayed with us, I think it became his only happy memory of my cuisine.
Susan Harvey
Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey
• Richard Bryant-Jeffries refers to cows being given methane blockers and the cover of Pink Floyd’s album Animals (Letters, 3 April). Animals does have a floating pig on it but, as he’s referring to cows, Atom Heart Mother is surely more appropriate.
Alan Gent
Cheadle, Cheshire
• I note that Derek Thompson, who plays Charlie in Casualty, is 75 (Birthdays, 4 April). He’s clearly heeded the call for older NHS medical staff to carry on working to help out in the current crisis.
Graham Russell
Market Drayton, Shropshire
• Is AI smarter than humans? Easy test: can it get the TV channel it wants in an unknown hotel room?
Lynne Pointer
Bampton, Oxfordshire
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