When I had oesophageal cancer, you were kind enough to publish my letter (29 May 2022) about naming my tumour Boris, as an unwelcome growth that needed to be eliminated. Well, I won that one, but now the gods have decided to bestow prostate cancer upon me. My shortlist of names this time around is Donald, Elon, Vladimir and Nigel. Any better ideas?
Rodney Smith
Newton Mearns, East Renfrewshire
Robert Jenrick is concerned about the teaching of “pseudo-Marxist gibberish” in our universities (Former British colonies owe ‘debt of gratitude’, says Robert Jenrick, 29 October). Will he therefore pledge that any future Tory government will ensure all students are taught real Marxism?
Alan Gray
Brighton
Perhaps the government could end the debate on who exactly is a working person (The politics sketch, 28 October) by adopting a trick from the Sunak government’s Rwanda playbook and legislate to define a working person as being anyone it deems to be a working person?
Philip Davies
Winchester
On Monday, Keir Starmer mixed his metaphors, talking of grasping the nettle on the economy and fixing the foundations. I hope he can manage to do so and isn’t just talking through his hat about a bee in his bonnet. After all, there’s more than one way to be stung.
Claude Scott
Richmond, London
Can anyone, perhaps your dog-owning columnist Tim Dowling, tell me how to explain to our dog that she needs to adjust her body clock by an hour and not wake us at 5am?
Peter Wilson
Windermere, Cumbria
