The decision of the diocese of Ely not to have the plaque in honour of the slave trader Tobias Rustat in Jesus College, Cambridge, removed should surprise nobody (‘We can’t believe it’: Cambridge college master aghast as slave trader plaque stays, 26 March). When the abolition of slavery bill passed through parliament in 1833, every single bishop in the House of Lords voted against it. It appears that little has changed since then.
David L Gosling
Cambridge
• Dave Minarik claims there are “definitely no politics” in model railways (‘I’m proud to be called a nerd!’ The pop and rock greats who love model railways, 23 March). There definitely are politics in the layout that I’m building in my cellar – it’s set in a grimy northern city with a gasworks and an old canal, waking up on the morning of Friday 27 July 1945 to news of a Labour landslide. Happy days!
Al Franco
Salford, Greater Manchester
