I was sad to see no mention of Margate, where TS Eliot worked on The Waste Land, in your feature about the poem’s 100th birthday (‘It takes your hand off the panic button’, 6 April): “On Margate Sands / I can connect / Nothing with nothing.” Never mind, the fact is commemorated on a plaque on a linguistically appropriate building on the prom, ie on the toilets.
Pat Robson
Margate, Kent
• The chancellor claims that having attended Winchester “helps me do the job in the way that I do it” (Rishi Sunak and wife donate over £100,000 to Winchester college, 5 April). Well, yes – are we surprised? Yet another reason for abolishing private education.
Anthony Blane
Nottingham
• Re silent characters in The Archers (Letters, 5 April), who else can remember the national rejoicing when Judi Dench put us out of our misery by becoming Pru Forrest in one precious episode?
Janet Mansfield
Aspatria, Cumbria
• Could it be that one of the very few benefits of Brexit is that, since he was tasked with identifying these, we have heard very little from Mr Jacob Rees-Mogg MP?
Patrick Pearson
Wolvercote, Oxfordshire
• My grandson asked if he could call me Gran (instead of Grandma) “because William has a Gran and she’s nice” (Letters, 4 April).
Barbara Symonds
Bingham, Nottinghamshire
• No tests, no masks, no isolation, no statistics, no rules, plus news of Covid being put on the back burner, equals herd immunity by stealth.
Jim Parry
Crosby, Merseyside
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