It’s ironic for me that Ben Bradshaw should get a valedictory interview in the Guardian (‘I still think Tony was right on Iraq’, 29 April). At my first face-to-face meeting with him shortly after he was elected as our MP, he wrongfooted me by saying: “You don’t want to believe everything you read in the Guardian, do you? I don’t read it.” There were bigger things he got wrong, as your headline reveals.
David Evans
Exeter
• As a one time “state school kid at Oxbridge”, I object to being described by Geoff Love as having been one of “a few tokenistic others, dropping in and out” like Sheffield United in the Premier League (Letters, 26 April). Mr Love is evidently unaware that well over two-thirds of current Oxbridge students have attended state schools and that, far from dropping out, they actually get the best degrees.
Michael Pyke
Lichfield, Staffordshire
• An argument against assisted dying (Report, 29 April) is that some vulnerable people may be coerced or forced into it, and therefore it should not be legal for anyone. Some people are forced into marriage, which is potentially a life sentence if not a death sentence. Should we therefore make marriage illegal for everyone?
Cathy Parker
Cambridge
• Virginia Orrey states that a baked potato (with a tin of pilchards – not in my case!) “is the work of a moment” (Letters, 29 April). My dream. I’d be grateful for her method.
Tony Coghan
London
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