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Politics

When grapefruit mustn’t be your cup of tea

Grapefruit
People with some health conditions should avoid grapefruit, writes Ann Newell Photograph: EddWestmacott/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Does the scientist giving advice on having grapefruit along with your cup of tea know that if you take medication for blood pressure conditions you should avoid grapefruit (Deja brew: chemistry professor’s latest advice on tea drinking – try grapefruit, 16 February)?
Ann Newell
Thame, Oxfordshire

• I was reminded by Lola Okolosie’s article (Why are kids doing the ‘Brexit tackle’? They’re having fun at adults’ expense – and mocking our toxic politics, 14 February) that my sister refers to her frozen shoulder as a “Brexit shoulder” as it no longer has full freedom of movement.
Susan Hutchinson
Oxford

• I was about to start conducting a performance of Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito when I noticed some children in the front row. I went over to them to deliver a trigger warning (Report, 11 February) that there was a very scary murder on stage during the overture. Their reply: “We love scary.”
David Davies
Salisbury

• On being informed that the University of Bristol was to make me an emeritus professor (Letters, 14 February), I inquired whether being an emeritus professor involved anything besides being called an emeritus professor. I received no reply.
Emeritus professor Keith Graham
Bristol

• It should be acknowledged that before Rishi Sunak took charge, the country was standing at a cliff edge. Since then we have taken a great step forward (Editorial, 15 February).
Terry O’Hara
Maghull, Merseyside

• Do you have a photograph you’d like to share with Guardian readers? If so, please click here to upload it. A selection will be published in our Readers’ best photographs galleries and in the print edition on Saturdays.

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