Discredit where it’s due for ‘hepeat’ offenders

When a woman suggests an idea and is ignored, then a man repeats the same idea and everyone loves it, that’s ‘hepeating’. Photograph: Wavebreak Media ltd/Alamy

As a victim of “hepeating” on occasion, I was delighted to read about this practice (Pass notes, 16 May). It reminded me of a great Jacky Fleming cartoon and postcard: “That’s an excellent idea, Miss Brown. Would one of the men like to make it?”
Liz Bavidge
Halifax, West Yorkshire

• Ed Davey “can’t remember a time when the Liberal Democrats were more important to getting the Tories out of power” (Lib Dems ‘already campaigning’ for Tiverton and Honiton byelection, 15 May). Is that because they spent half of the last decade keeping them in it?
Alan Gray
Brighton