Love is in the air | Benefiting from slavery | Lost in translation | Haberdashers’ Aske’s alumni | First lawnmower of spring
The “selfless romantic act” mentioned in your article (My most romantic moment: a kind man bought me flowers – with no expectation of winning me over, 14 February) brought to mind my late husband. He was never one for giving flowers. But one evening he staggered in from work with two enormous bouquets. Seeing my face, he said: “Don’t worry, I found them on the train.”
Val Mainwood
Wivenhoe, Essex
• Alex Renton’s article (We whose ancestors owned slaves want to make amends – but nations must also pay their due, 11 February) quotes the MP Richard Drax as saying “no one can be held responsible today for what happened many hundreds of years ago”. This may be true, but by the same logic, no one today should be able to benefit from what happened many hundreds of years ago either. And yet a few very rich people still do.
Steve Townsley
Bridgend
