I have empathy with Coco Khan in her dealings with unwanted religious people cold calling (Call it the Rod Stewart manoeuvre. Who hasn’t had to dump a really appalling friend?, 15 June). In the 1970s a friend had some such visitors that were impossible to make go away. She said she would think about what they said. They enthusiastically returned the next day when she told them: “My husband says I don’t believe in it.” She was not a feminist and our female friendship group was never sure if she was innocently repeating his words or being ironic. It became our catchphrase for ever after for anything we didn’t agree with.
Ann Clinton
Stockport, Cheshire
• Some years ago, in an article on anatomy and art, I compared a painting in Chauvet cave, Ardèche, to Picasso’s Minotaur caressant du mufle la main d’une dormeuse (Letters, 14 June). Unfortunately, the sleeping woman became a dormouse in the online version – happily it was corrected in print, but who reads that nowadays?
Gillian Morriss-Kay
Emeritus professor of developmental anatomy, Oxford
• Michael Robinson makes a valid point about Boris Johnson not making money from his holidays (Letters, 14 June). But they usually do not cost him anything either.
Tracey Gilbert
Exeter, Devon
• Boris Johnson was always Marmite. He’s now also toast.
James Mackie
Witney, Oxfordshire
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