I couldn’t help seeing a strong parallel last week between two demoralised sets of lame ducks. There’s the England cricket team, facing near certain elimination from the World Cup, bereft of ideas and positivity, and wishing they could just get on a return flight (England’s inflexible tactics meant they went hard and now they will go home, 27 October). Then there is the Tory party, facing almost certain banishment from power, and wishing they didn’t have to go through the motions of pretending to be a government for the next 14 months, and that it could all just end now.
Robin Spencer
Reigate, Surrey
• Re your article (Seeds of potential: the Caribbean women reviving a dying art, 28 October), I saw some of these beautiful works, created from seeds, for sale in the shop at the Garden Museum, just by Lambeth Palace in London. Maybe if more people bought them, this would not be a dying art.
Emma Tait
London
• In the mid-1940s my brother, aged about nine, had been extremely naughty and my father decided to punish him by cutting off all his hair except for a fringe at the front. At 4pm, after school turnout, there was a queue of his classmates outside our door, all asking for the same haircut (Letters, 27 October).
Jim McLean
London
• Re the worry of looking in the mirror and seeing your father looking back (Letters, 27 October), might it be more concerning not to see your father reflected?
Jennifer Haigh
Sheffield
• Re reviews (Letters, 29 October), I was recently asked: “How was your car parking experience?”
David Prothero
Harlington, Bedfordshire
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