Following Nicola Sturgeon’s bravura performance on BBC One’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme (Nicola Sturgeon: I feel as if I’m serving a sentence for a crime I did not commit, 31 May), I wonder how long it will be before the phrase “The elephant in the room” is replaced by “The motorhome on the drive”.
Richard Packer
Bristol
• Katie Garner says: “Once you’ve listened to Alan Rickman read The Return of the Native, you’ll be hooked on Thomas Hardy” (I devoured classic novels as a teenager. In a world of distractions, can I relearn how to read them?, 2 June). I would go further: if Rickman had read the contents on a weedkiller bottle, you’d be hooked on that as well.
Angela Barton
Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire
