Re Adrian Chiles (The left lane on a motorway is for the virtuous and the good. That’s why I love it, 2 November), I agree and am the same species of nerd. Early in my now 60 years of driving, however, I was strongly advised by some older know-it-all that, on the growing number of three-lane motorways, “the inside lane is for lorries, the middle lane is for cars and the outside lane is for salesmen”.
Colin Tipping
Crieff, Perth and Kinross
• I have personal confirmation that my brain health declined from 2019 to 2020 (Covid pandemic ‘had lasting impact’ on brain health of people aged 50 or over, 1 November). In 2020 you printed 12 of my letters, but in 2020 it had declined to six. However, I received a step counter for Christmas in 2020 which seems to have perked me up, as you published 13 in 2021.
Margaret Squires
St Andrews, Fife
• In your article about the exhibition in Spain of neglected female artists, you translate the Spanish maestras by the phrase “women masters” (Report, 31 October). You have wasted the opportunity to use “mastress” which has been in English since the 14th century.
Beverley Charles Rowe
London
• No, Jonathan Jones , that’s not “a multicoloured houndstooth suit’ that the artist David Hockney is wearing in his self-portrait (Review, 1 November). It’s a very bold check.
Graham Downie
Studley, Warwickshire
